Measuring quality in planning : managing the performance process / Matthew Carmona and Louie Sieh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carmona, Matthew.

Contributor:

Sieh, Louie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Evaluation.

City planning.

City planning--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Spon Press, 2004.

Summary:

This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning: how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process. Although case study material is drawn from UK practice this topic is universal and the authors include discussions of international practice and experience.

Contents:

Planning for quality

Introduction - The research

The question of quality

Managing local government

Measuring performance, the building blocks

Planning performance in England, the story so far

Measuring quality

An analytical framework : quality, governance, performance and planning

Practice in England

An international perspective

Innnovation and measurement in England

A new model of quality measurement in planning.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-386) and index.

ISBN:

0415315239

0415315247

020356331X

OCLC:

54365164