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Yellow, black, and white traffic pattern lines painted on the ground near a seemingly abandoned transit facility.

Transit Futures

Exploratory Scenario Planning in Greater Kansas City

Kirsten Lundberg

March 2025, English

This case reviews efforts of Mid-America Regional Council to incorporate exploratory scenario planning into its transportation plan. The council wanted to look at forces like climate change, demographic change, and technological advancements, and modify its vision accordingly.

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Infrastructure

March 2025, English

This case reviews efforts of Mid-America Regional Council to incorporate exploratory scenario planning into its transportation plan. The council wanted to look at forces like climate change, demographic change, and technological advancements, and modify its vision accordingly.

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Infrastructure

Busy San Francisco, California street with cars, buses and pedestrians in background.

Envisioning Future Transit

Exploratory Scenario Planning in San Francisco

Kirsten Lundberg

December 2024, English

This case study reviews the efforts of transportation planning agencies in San Francisco County, California, to use exploratory scenario planning (XSP) in a new multiagency partnership known as ConnectSF. ConnectSF used XSP to guide a hybrid long-range planning process that began with XSP workshops and was followed by a consensus-building visioning process.

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Climate Change, Infrastructure, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality

December 2024, English

This case study reviews the efforts of transportation planning agencies in San Francisco County, California, to use exploratory scenario planning (XSP) in a new multiagency partnership known as ConnectSF. ConnectSF used XSP to guide a hybrid long-range planning process that began with XSP workshops and was followed by a consensus-building visioning process.

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Climate Change, Infrastructure, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality

July 2024, English

Multimedia Cases

Comparing Hazard Mitigation Plans and Climate Change Adaptation Plans as Strategies to Foster Community Resilience

Melina Matos, Philip Gilbertson, Sierra Woodruff, Sara Meerow, and Malini Roy

January 2024, English

This case encourages readers to identify opportunities to better integrate Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs) and Climate Change Adaptation Plans (CCAPs). Focusing on Boston, a leader in climate change adaptation that has two stand-alone plans, it compares the roles of these plan types and their implications for vulnerability to flooding.

Inquiry Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment

January 2024, English

This case encourages readers to identify opportunities to better integrate Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs) and Climate Change Adaptation Plans (CCAPs). Focusing on Boston, a leader in climate change adaptation that has two stand-alone plans, it compares the roles of these plan types and their implications for vulnerability to flooding.

Inquiry Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment

To Plan, First Imagine

Exploratory Scenario Planning in Greater Philadelphia

Kirsten Lundberg

January 2024, English

This case study reviews the efforts of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) to use exploratory scenario planning to generate future scenarios for Connections 2050, a long-range plan for Greater Philadelphia focusing on transportation, smart growth, and environmental stewardship.

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City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Infrastructure

January 2024, English

This case study reviews the efforts of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) to use exploratory scenario planning to generate future scenarios for Connections 2050, a long-range plan for Greater Philadelphia focusing on transportation, smart growth, and environmental stewardship.

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City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Infrastructure

A building painted with the phrase 'Welcome to the ONE Love'

Still the One

Affordable Housing Initiatives in Burlington Vermont’s Old North End

October 2023, English

Multimedia Cases

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Local Government, Public Finance

October 2023, English

Multimedia Cases

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Local Government, Public Finance

Making Millennium Park

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

Financing a City’s Vision

The Social Mobilization of Land Values in São Paulo

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

Bravery in the Face of Bureaucracy

The Negotiation and Completion of Minute 319

Jennifer Gimbel

October 2019, English

This case reviews the negotiation process regarding the operations of the Colorado River system after it experienced the most severe drought in recorded history.

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City and Regional Planning, Environment, Informal Settlements, Water

October 2019, English

This case reviews the negotiation process regarding the operations of the Colorado River system after it experienced the most severe drought in recorded history.

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City and Regional Planning, Environment, Informal Settlements, Water