RT Book, Section
T1 Evaluating the Design of Integrated Urban Development Strategies: Evaluability, Plan Quality and Planning Learning Processes
A1 Guerrero Mayo, María José
A1 Rodríguez García, María Jesús
K1 Urban policies
K1 European Union
K1 Comparative analysis
K1 Urban policy impact
K1 Policy design
AB Policy design is a growing area of study in policy studies due to its importance in ensuring good implementation and impact. A ‘good design’ ensures good implementation processes and the proposed policy outcomes. Nevertheless, this issue has received little attention in urban initiatives promoted by the EU, at least through the analysis of local policy portfolios from a comparative perspective. This chapter applies the CUPPA approach to analyse the quality of local strategies design from a comparative perspective applying the comparative urban policy portfolio approach. The chapter establishes quality dimensions of local plans for each phase of the policy cycle (from diagnosis to evaluation); and two broad dimensions to analyse local plans’ evaluability: the practical dimension (information needed to evaluate local plans) and the analytical dimension (the coherence between problems, objectives and planned actions). The analysis of URBAN and URBANA Initiatives shows a medium level of quality of local plans design, although very low regarding evaluation. The comparison between URBAN and URBANA local projects shows learning processes regarding the design of governance processes and mechanisms in local strategies, a better definition of instruments designed to ensure coordination among policy sector departments in local governments, between local and supra-municipal authorities, and between public and societal actors. Therefore, portfolio design analysis shows a growing trend towards multi-level governance in urban initiatives, but it also indicates evaluation is a dimension that needs improvements (low levels of quality and no improvements between programmes analysed).
PB Palgrave Macmillan Cham
SN 978-3-031-20884-3
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/27302
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/27302
LA en
NO Guerrero-Mayo, M.J., Rodríguez-García, M.J. (2023). Evaluating the Design of Integrated Urban Development Strategies: Evaluability, Plan Quality and Planning Learning Processes. In: Navarro Yáñez, C.J., Rodríguez-García, M.J., Guerrero-Mayo, M.J. (eds) EU Integrated Urban Initiatives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20885-0_3
NO This book has received the support of the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union through the Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban Policies (EUrPol, Ref. Project: 612051-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPJMO-CHAIR). Data collection and some analyses have been supported by MINECO (Government of Spain) and ERDF (European Union) through the URBAN IMPACTS Project (CSO2015-70048-R).
NO Centro de Sociología y Políticas Urbanas - The Urban Governance Lab, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, España
DS RIO
RD Aug 5, 2026