Urban Planning And Urban Plan Evaluation

INDICATORS AND URBAN PLAN EVALUATION

Some common planning can be done in the urban planning. These indicators are very helpful for urban planning measures include:

• Economic indicators includes the rates of unemployment or employment; income per capita, productivity rates

• Environmental indicators are water quality and air, water consumption rates, amount of recreational land per capita, levels of pollution

• Gender indicators like they can help to force and focus the implementation

• Social indicators such as highest level of education, age, gender, literacy rates, language

Programmed evaluation is the program which can be evaluated and involves gender and equity and also the mainstreaming, that are particular to have become integral

In the developing countries, the statistics are being produced at the level of central government.

The users of the public services can tell the governments a lot about the quality and the value of the public services provided. For instance, the Bangalore city in India uses the ‘report card system’ which is used to reveal that at what level its services have been delivered. Examples; In Jinja (Uganda), indicators are used to monitor the urban trends and conditions and to evaluate the impact of programme interventions.

The objectives are to promote more equitable forms of economic growth, manage the resources of the cities to enhance the sustainability, and the empower stakeholders to address the key of the urban development issues such as Santiago (in Chile) has developed an evaluation and monitoring system. Another example is the Delhi (in India) has produced a master plan of the plan monitoring and evaluation system.

CAVEATS (WARNINGS) IN THE MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE URBAN

• Plan administration – How efficiently is the plan being administered?

• Plan impacts – How well do plan outcomes, results and impacts meet plan objectives?

The key is to establish the goals and objectives of the urban plan evaluation exercise. Indicators should make the optimal uses of the existing information, with the warning that ease of access to the usual sources of data may not coincide with the evaluation’s information needs. Urban planning organizations need to collect and monitor information that supports evaluation, and that urban plan goals, objectives and policies need to be designed with monitoring and evaluation in mind. Finally, indicators evolve through testing and verification over time.

CONCLUSION

Monitoring and evaluation of urban plans has a great deal of potential to improve decision-making capacity, inform planning practice and educate community residents.

A number of strategies can be identified as decision-makers move to implement urban plan monitoring and