Indicators for urban and regional planning
Subtitle: the interplay of policy and methods
By: Cecilia Wong.
Series: The RTPI library series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: City planning; Regional planning; Social indicators
Description: "Examines the process of indicator development in Urban and Regional Planning. Includes discussion of methodological debates and case study analysis of deprivation, urban and regional development, sustainability and planning"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: THE VOGUE OF INDICATORS THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL POSITION OF INDICATORS THE POLITICAL-MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE OF INDICATOR  DEVFELOPMENT THE INTERPLAY OF POLICY AND METHODS STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; title: Part One: Indicator Usage and Policy-Making INDICATORS AND POLICY-MAKING THEORY, MEASUREMENT AND POLICY-MAKING: THE  TANGLED TRIANGLE INDICATORS AND POLICY PRACTICE: UNDERSTANDING,  INTERESTS AND VALUES THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS IN INDICATOR RESEARCH INDICATORS IN USE: SOME KEY ISSUES Institutionalisation of indicators The role of data agencies Standardisation versus consensus building CHANGING ETHOS OF INDICATOR USAGE THE FORMULAIC CULTURE OF FUNDING  ALLOCATIONS NEO-LIBERALISM AND COMPETITIVE CULTURE NEW LABOUR AND DE-STANDARDISATION OF STATISTICS MODERNISATION AND EVIDENCE BASED POLICY-MAKING DISCRETIONARY LOCAL INTELLIGENCE EVIDENCE BASED GOVERNANCE: MORE REACHING OUT MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF NATIONAL STATISTICS BETTER INFORMATION STATISTICS: A MATTER OF TRUST AND QUALITY TOWARDS NATIONAL STATISTICS: TO BE OR NOT TO BE NEIGHBOURHOOD STATISTICS UNDER ONE ROOF EMERGING REGIONAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY, POLITICS AND STATISTICS PROVISION: THE ALLSOPP  REVIEW; title: Part Two: Conceptual, Methodological and Analytical Issues  DATA: A REQUIREMENT AND A PROBLEM  DATA CHALLENGES UNCERTAINTY AND VOLATILITY IN THE DATA FIELD DATA ACCESSIBILITY AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FINE-GRAINED AND UP-TO-DATE SPATIAL DATA DIFFICULTIES IN MAPPING DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIES DIFFICULT TO MEASURE ISSUES INDICATOR HARMONISATION: A MIXED BLESSING TECHNICAL OR ANALYTICAL SYNTHESIS OF INDICATORS WEIGHTING AND COMPOSITE INDICES SIMPLIFICATION AND STRUCTURE OF ANALYSIS DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION ISSUES Connection between theory and measurement Analysis and policy intelligence Tracking changes: benchmarking and trend analysis Use of soft and qualitative information INFLUENCE THE INFLUENTIALS: ACCESSIBLE  PRESENTATION METHODOLOGICAL PROCESS OF INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT: A  REVISIT PROCESS OF INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTUAL CONSOLIDATION: THEORY AND POLICY ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK IDENTIFICATION OF INDICATORS SYNETHESIS OF INDICATOR VALUES REMARKS; title: Part Three: Case Studies DEPRIVATION INDICATORS INTORDUCTION UNDERSTANDING DEPRIVATION CONCEPTUAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES The urban-rural dimension Area-based measures and area-based policies Vulnerable groups Spatial scales and administrative areas Weightings, statistical standardisation and transformation Measurement issues: do they matter? DEPRIVATION INDICES AND THEIR POLITICAL  MEANING Policy towards places Index review and development Critical friends FINAL THOUGHTS URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS TRACKING URBAN AND REGIONAL CHANGE  LIVABILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE STUDIES MEASURING PLACE COMPETITIVENESS DEVOLUTION OF ECONOMIC POLICIES AND  INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES The ambiguity of regional competitiveness and state of the region  indicators From diagnostic to performance measures Policy devolution and institutional support CONCLUDING REMARKS SUSTAINABILITY AND PLANNING INDICATORS WICKED PROBLEMS AND OPEN CONCEPTS GLOCALISATION OF SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO SUSTAINABLE  COMMUNITIES The folk movement of community indicators in the US Centrally directed community strategies in Britain More indicators for sustainable communities: the Egan Review MONITORING SPATIAL PLANNING STRATEGIES ESPON: political rationality or technical justification? Monitoring regional planning policies: national output indicators and  central guidance Planning reforms and evidence based policy-making TENSIONS AND DILEMMAS CONCLUSION POLICY IDEOLOGY AND INDICATOR USAGE CENTRALISED DECENTRALISATION AND GLOCALISATION  TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AND DOMOCRACY WHERE WILL THE FUTURE LIE? References