Local Plan Implementation: some Case-Study Implications for Research, Training and Management

Abstract

Following the 1977 OECD Athens Symposium on Urban Management, pump-priming finance was made available to Dr. John Taylor to head a small team of full and part-time researchers to examine the plan implementation process in two tightly defined case study areas in England. This project was both experimental and specula­tive, the basic aim being to indicate what the scope and limitations were of the case study approach and whether OECD could profitably further develop this work as a means of fulfilling the wider objectives of exchanging international expertise and promoting inter-disciplinary cooperation. This conference paper reports back on what has been discovered and indicates possible future research directions