Picking up speed: public participation and local sustainability plan implementation

摘要: Although planning scholars often argue that public participation improves implementation outcomes, this relationship is rarely empirically tested. This study investigates how engagement, during and after plan adoption, impacts on the speed of local government sustainability implementation. It includes a correlation analysis quantized in-depth interviews with planners in 36 American cities. The finds individual characteristics both had statistically significant relationships to speed, but some cases was negative. correlations imply can make strategic choices improve through creation adoption. Alternatively, also participatory slow implementation, problematic outcome when ultimate goal process on-...