A call for stakeholder participation in evaluating the implementation of plans

摘要

While planners and planning theorists have intensely debated numerous aspects of the early stages of the planning process that result in the creation of plans, few have focused on the latter stages of the process-the stages that involve evaluating the implementation of plans. Few in the field have directly posed the question of who should be evaluating the degree to which plans have been implemented and why. In this commentary I attempt to bridge this gap by arguing for substantial public participation in evaluating the implementation of plans, primarily using a communicative action framework.