Change and the City an alternative policy development framework to improve the quality of transportation policy in Calgary
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2024-06-26
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Planning policy is the language that translates governance into built form. It is a necessary and integral tool in the operation of democracy. This doctoral thesis examines transportation planning policy in the Alberta context as a means for investigating the constituent pieces of good and bad planning policy. Using design science research, autoethnography and interviews as components of a research program, this study explores the state of transportation planning policy to better understand how policy has and continues to shape the communities that it guides. This work attempts to highlight the reasons and conditions behind why policy may succeed and use that information to propose an improved way of developing planning policy. Common failures in policy and policy implementation are examined and strategies proposed for practitioners to use. Through the research, the concept of a policy life-cycle and the adaptation of a policy development cycle are described and defined as new concepts in the practice. An examination of policy successes, failures and the conditions that lead to those outcomes shapes a root cause analysis which forms a basis for work. The information is then used to build, test and refine creative artifacts through the research project. A policy development guidebook is generated as a final output and tool that policy planners in Alberta can use to improve the success rate of their municipal planning policies.
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Change, Disruptive Technology, Planning Policy, Policy Lifecycle, Policy Failure, Transportation Planning, Municipal Government, Transportation Policy, Urban Planning
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Whyte, R. V. (2024). Change and the City an alternative policy development framework to improve the quality of transportation policy in Calgary (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.