Robert Goodspeed on How Exploratory Scenario Planning Helps Imagine Uncertain Futures

It seems the word “unprecedented” has been used so often to
describe everything from the weather to public health in recent
years that the only certainty is uncertainty. This makes the job
of urban planners especially difficult as they try to anticipate
what their cities will need in the decades to come. In the
business world, a type of modeling called exploratory scenario
planning (XSP) has been helping companies cope with volatility
for decades. Now the idea is gaining traction among planners,
thanks to the work of researchers like Robert Goodspeed, AICP.


In this episode, APA Research Manager Joe DeAngelis, AICP, sits
down with Goodspeed to talk about how XSP can help planners bring
together disparate stakeholders and variables to build robust
plans that can help cities prepare for whatever comes next — be
it rain, shine, boom or bust.


Episode URL:
https://planning.org/podcast/robert-goodspeed-on-how-exploratory-scenario-planning-helps-imagine-uncertain-futures/