How do plans work?
The items in the agenda of a meeting have in common the timing of decisions at the same meeting and perhaps a common decision maker`s authority,but the choice for one item need have no relation to the choice for another.A policy works by automating repeat decisions to save time or by ensuring that the same action is taken in the same circumstances,which yields fairness or predictability.Plans also work as a focus of deliberation.Such work occurs both in the creation of plans and in their use to guide action.
Investments and regulations
Investments in physical infrastructure of facilities mediate between geographic space and people`s behaviors.Thus two kinks of decisions matter:the decisions to invest in infrastructure and the decisions to use the resulting infrastructure in particular ways.Thus an indicator of vehicle miles traveled per person per day depends on where people who work downtown live and over what type of network they travel,which depends in turn on the geographic character of the site of the city.
People choose to live or work in facilities that exist at particular locations because someone invested in the facility at the location.
DETERMINING WHETHER PLANS WORK
Do plans work?
-Plan-making behaviors
-Plans -information available at particular times to particular people.
-Investments& regulations
-Outcomes
Summary:Plans work in particular situations
Plans can work in more than one way.Given explanations of how plans work.They thus provide a basis for predicting what plans will be worth making.
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