PEPEC 201 - Scenario Planning in Envision Tomorrow Plus (ET+)

Although used in business management since the 1960s, scenario planning has been widely disseminated among urban planning practitioners primarily over the last decade. The promise of scenario planning is that it allows people and planners make decisions in a comprehensive way, considering a wide range of possible outcomes of specific actions. Envision Tomorrow Plus (ET+) is an innovative set of urban and regional planning tools that can be used to model development feasibility on a site-by-site basis as well as create and evaluate multiple land use scenarios, test and refine transportation plans, produce small-area concept plans, and model complex regional issues. This course focuses on providing theoretical backgrounds of scenario planning as and emerging trend in urban planning and understanding how to develop scenarios by using Envision Tomorrow Plus (ET+) ? the most recent scenario planning tool developed so far.