Using content analysis to evaluate local master plans and zoning codes
Using content analysis to evaluate local master plans and zoning codes
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.10.006
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发表时间：
2008-07
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
R. Norton
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作者：
R. Norton
最近的学术研究集中在美国各地不断蔓延的景观发展模式，以及为此提倡的一系列地方规划和发展管理改革。本文批评了在那些倡导改革的背景下，使用内容分析来评估地方总体规划和分区法规。我首先讨论了内容分析对评估计划和规范的适应性，我认为学者需要对计划的功能有明确的期望，以使他们的评估有意义。我将该计划定性为“沟通政策法案”，并认为该法案的沟通内容（其政策重点）应与内容传达的方式（其质量）区分开来。然后，我描述了更大的政策背景，这些背景构成了最近关于地方规划和发展管理的学术研究，作为改革地方努力以促进“新传统景观”的愿望。在这些讨论的基础上，我提出了一系列评估当地总体规划和分区法规的标准。最后，我提出了对密歇根州中部的计划和法规的分析结果，并讨论了根据这些发现对计划和法规进行评估的内容分析的使用。
Recent scholarship has focused on the sprawling landscape development patterns occurring across the US and the array of local planning and development management reforms advocated in response. This paper critiques the use of content analysis for evaluating local master plans and zoning codes in the context of those advocated reforms. I first discuss the adaptation of content analysis for evaluating plans and codes, and I argue that scholars need to have clear expectations about what functions a plan serves to make their evaluations meaningful. I characterize the plan as a “communicative policy act” and argue that the communicative content of that act (its policy focus) should be distinguished from the way in which that content is conveyed (its quality). I then characterize the larger policy context that frames recent scholarship on local planning and development management as the desire to reform local efforts to promote “neo-traditional landscapes.” Building on these discussions, I present an array of criteria for evaluating local master plans and zoning codes. I conclude by presenting findings from an analysis of plans and codes in central Michigan and discussing the use of content analysis for evaluating plans and codes in light of those findings.