Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban & Regional Planning (Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning) (Volume 20)

Originally published in 1987, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban and Regional Planning, outlines the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of urban and regional planning. The theory of CBA is developed with examples to illustrate the principles, it also deals with details of the applications and covers issues such as local health and social services provision, local economic development and regional policy evaluation, and planning in less developed countries as well as the conventional land-use issues of physical planning.