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Measuring Quality - Best Value in Planning and Urban Design was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in 2001 - 2003
Overview
In the UK, planning practice has often been distorted by externally imposed measurement practices, that reduce planning effectiveness to simple performance indicators. This project aimed to explore how a more holistic notion of measurement could be developed, one which measured qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions of planning performance.
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Professor Matthew Carmona
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Carmona M (2003) 'Planning Indicators in England - A Top-down Evolutionary Tale'听Built Environment, Vol. 29, No.4, pp281-295
Carmona M & Sieh L (2004)听Measuring Quality in Planning, Managing the Performance Process, London, Spon Press
Carmona M & Sieh L (2005) 'Performance Measurement Innovation in English Planning Authorities',听Planning Theory and Practice, Vol.6, No.3, pp303-333
Carmona M (2007)听Tomorrow Series Paper 8: Monitoring Outcome Quality in Planning - Challenges and Possibilities, London, Town & Country Planning Association
Carmona M & Sieh L (2008) 'Performance Measurement in Planning - Towards a Holistic View',听Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy听Vol 26, No 2, pp428-454听
- Impact
The research has informed a number of reviews of English planning performance indicators and follow-up government funded work on local environmental quality.