Planning for the City That Was Forecast

Five years helping planning authorities live with population projections that did not come true

The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021–2026 reads five years of planning work against the School's projection ledger, a register of population series tracked from vintage to recorded count. It reports three domains: a projection statement fronting growth-corridor business cases, service reviews for towns whose per-resident indicators improved as their residents left, and a retirement protocol for the population assumptions still cited by plans after a newer series has replaced them.

@misc{slop_3pr2b3,
  author       = {Edda Nwafor and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Planning for the City That Was Forecast: Five years helping planning authorities live with population projections that did not come true},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.3pr2b3},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-impact-planning-for-the-3pr2b3/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Impact report},
}