Myers, Kitsuse 2000 Constracting the Future in Planning
Science Fiction- Over the past century, science fiction has proven a rich source of creative scenarios
about the future.
Construction of Persuasive Stories As opposed to scenarios, persuasive stories are not meant merely
to prepare their audience for the future, but to convince people to adopt the storyteller’s preferred
course of action.
Conclusion- Current practice in planning addresses the future in ways that are superficial,
shortsighted, or hollow. Academics have contributed very little to this cause, leaving planning
practitioners to their own devices. If they so desired, planning academics could surely help to build a
more intellectually sophisticated and defensible approach to shaping the future.
Taken together, however, these elements form a planning toolkit useful for construction of
normative futures that are firmly grounded in time as well as space.
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