Challenging disabled access in the built environment: an evaluation of evidence from the United Kingdom

Article Abstract:

A study has found that disabled people are not involved in matters regarding access to buildings in the UK. They are often excluded from the decision making process in local councils. When the disabled join together to give advice or make suggestions, regarding access to buildings during planning, they are largely ignored. Many local councils do not have access officers, with some 46% citing insufficient funds. The disabled often find that private builders abuse the Regulations and do not provide adequate access. Only 3% were reported to be very keen to build buildings will good access.

Buildings and facilities, Buildings, Disabled persons, Access for the disabled

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Externalities, transactions costs, public choice and the appeal of zoning: a response to Lai Wai Chung and Sorensen

Article Abstract:

A response to Lai and Sorenson's serious doubts about the fundamental normative claims used to justify zoning, argues that the questions raised were misplaced, in that zoning is wrongly seen as a social efficiency or social welfare tool. The argument is for zoning as a municipal service responding to private demands, and it focuses attention on the political and legal arrangements that make zoning attractive. The public choice theory is put forward as the most relevant theoretical framework, rather than Pigovian welfare economics or Coasian transaction cost minimisation.

Analysis, Zoning

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Integrating hard-to-measure externalities into the evaluation of local economic development projects

Article Abstract:

There is no standardised procedure or exact science to evaluating economic development projects and this has led to problems for the city planning profession who have come under pressure to include the economic element in preparing development plans. A spreadsheet model for evaluating economic development projects is described, giving an overview and identifying how local knowledge and practitioner experience can be used to change key parameters within the model context.

Economic aspects, Planning

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