Future Scenarios To Plan For

Understanding the future and the relevant time horizon is the starting point for any plan. Without it the plan is a waste of time. Whilst this might seem an obvious “no brainer” many government projects and city plans are based on political aspirations and a rosy future based on the most optimistic projections of business as usual, denying risks and gloomy outlooks that could sink the plan. Views that contradict this narrative are often ridiculed and labelled extreme and never included, even as worse-case scenarios.