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Searching for the Good Plan

A Meta-Analysis of Plan Quality Studies

Philip Berke

University of North Carolina

David Godschalk

University of North Carolina

Despite the centrality of comprehensive plans to the profession of city and regional planning, there is a gap in knowledge about the quality of plans as they are not routinely evaluated against best practice standards. We discuss plan quality evaluation, an emerging methodology for assessing the quality of plans. We review the evolution of the concept, the dimensions covered, and the principles and criteria used. We then provide a comparative meta-analytic analysis of the findings from published plan quality evaluations, ranging from research studies in the United States to national planning policy applications in Holland and New Zealand, and offer recommendations about future directions in improving content analysis of plan documents and research design in plan quality evaluation.

Key Words: land use plan evaluation concepts • plan evaluation methodology • plan quality principles and criteria • meta-analysis of plan quality research • future directions in plan evaluation

This version was published on February 1, 2009

Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 23, No. 3, 227-240 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0885412208327014
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