Searching for the Good Plan
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- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Literature
- Vol. 23 (3), 227-240
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412208327014
Abstract
Despite the centrality of comprehensive plans to the profession of city and regional planning, there is a gap in knowledge about the quality of plans as they are not routinely evaluated against best practice standards. We discuss plan quality evaluation, an emerging methodology for assessing the quality of plans. We review the evolution of the concept, the dimensions covered, and the principles and criteria used. We then provide a comparative meta-analytic analysis of the findings from published plan quality evaluations, ranging from research studies in the United States to national planning policy applications in Holland and New Zealand, and offer recommendations about future directions in improving content analysis of plan documents and research design in plan quality evaluation.Keywords
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