General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans

The planning profession has developed relatively few criteria for evaluating the quality of general plans. Evaluation criteria have become more important with the increasing number of states that mandate general plans. Several kinds of plan evaluation exist, and these are distinguished and described...

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Published inJournal of the American Planning Association Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 329 - 344
Main Author Baer, William C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, D.C Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.1997
American Planning Association
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Area planning & development
Criteria
Development plans
Evaluation
Government mandates
Planning
Postmodernism
Quality
Strategic planning
Studies
Urban planning
USA
United States > US
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Summary:The planning profession has developed relatively few criteria for evaluating the quality of general plans. Evaluation criteria have become more important with the increasing number of states that mandate general plans. Several kinds of plan evaluation exist, and these are distinguished and described before a review of different concepts of plans as a source of the appropriate criteria to evaluate them. A list of suggested criteria for plan evaluation during plan preparation is then presented, to be used to make the plan better. Appropriate criteria for a plan are not easy to devise, and the postmodern critique of planning makes this task more difficult still. These issues are explored as well.
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ISSN:0194-4363
1939-0130
DOI:10.1080/01944369708975926