CIVITAS SMILE Planning Evaluation workshop

CIVITAS SMILE organised a 3 day Planning Evaluation workshop at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh on 10-12 December. 20 academics from 7 European countries (+ Israel and USA) were invited to present their ideas on new approaches to evaluation. They covered the following topics:

• The indirect impacts of planning intervention
• The socio-economic and socio-environmental contexts of planning evaluation
• Social and distributional indicators for quality of life and environmental quality
• Integration of ecological aspects into socio-economic planning and evaluation;
• How to capture the socio-environmental and socio-institutional effects of planning interventions;
• Methods to consider environmental, social, economic, and political interchange in evaluation;
• Tools for understanding planning success;
• More robust ways of measuring how well cities are performing from a range of perspectives and values.

The first day of the workshop was devoted to the Cumulative Effects Assessment used in CIVITAS SMILE. CIVITAS SMILE held their PMB in Edinburgh to coincide with this workshop so that transport and planning practitioners could take part in the workshop and together debate how we can more effectively measure the impacts of city interventions.

Author: Holding Graz Linien

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