Effective practitioners in any field understand that lessons from the past underlie successes in the future. Which practices have worked before and which haven't? What does that teach us? Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans blends theory and practice to delineate the questions that planners need to ask as they shape the future of Canadian communities. Monitoring the outputs and outcomes generated by a plan – and gauging their impact – ensures that the planning function remains relevant, and that resources are used effectively, efficiently, and equitably. This invaluable resource offers a wealth of pragmatic guidance on plan evaluation processes and methods.
Introduction: Tackling the Unknowns
1 Who Does What: The Canadian Planning Context
2 Laying the Cornerstone: Plan Evaluation History and Theory
3 The Toolbox: Indicator Frameworks and Models
4 Measure Twice, Cut Once: Monitoring and Evaluation in Practice
5 Ready, Set: Planning the Evaluation Process
6 Finding Answers: Research Approaches and Methods
7 Making It Work: Management of the Evaluation Process
8 A Pocket Guide for Best Practice
Glossary; Works Cited; Index
Mark Seasons, FCIP, RPP, is a professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. He is a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners and a registered professional planner with career experience in Ontario, Alberta, and New Zealand. His planning research has been published in several leading academic journals, and in UN-Habitat’s Global Report on Human Settlements 2009: Planning Sustainable Cities.
The combination of theories, methods and practices makes this book an essential resource for all professional planners in Canada and elsewhere.
~Haiqing Xu, Deputy City Manager, Vaughan, ON, Plan Canada
This new text is a must-read in undergraduate and graduate planning classrooms.
~Robert Patrick, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Planning and Policy
Scholarship has been differentiated into many categorizations, including scholarship of discovery versus scholarship of synthesis...Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans contributes to both.
~Lewis D. Hopkins, Journal of the American Planning Association
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