This article reviews the major approaches of program evaluation and evaluation in planning.
The challenges to evaluating plans and planning are discussed, including the reliance on ex …

Smart growth policy has been identified as a panacea to tackle a range of undesirable
outcomes of sprawl development. Various neighbourhood planning concepts have been …

There is a growing recognition globally that young people are under-represented or
excluded from planning processes, and that this exclusion could have lasting impacts on …

Sustainable urban development requires not only dense and land-saving construction, but
also a large share of urban vegetation. A planned unit development (PUD) is a land-use …

Municipalities develop individual land policies and can choose not to apply available
planning instruments or to apply them differently than intended. While this strategic action …

Problem, research strategy, and findings Why would plans have an impact on the built
environment when their provisions can be revisited in the context of individual development …

Flexibility sets planned unit developments (PUD) apart from conventional planning and
zoning. Using a case study of a PUD project in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I deconstruct the impact …

Form-based codes (FBCs) pursue alternative built environments that integrate design-
focused approaches for the purpose of fostering predictable development outcomes. The …

We utilise a sample of 25 million US mortgages originated between 1999 and 2017 to
calculate pairwise mortgage correlations inferred from mortgage defaults. Our findings …

Evaluation is an established activity in public sector organizations. Evaluation is rooted in
the principle that government interventions should have demonstrable benefits. In the realm …