Georgina Blakeley and Brendan Evans
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719084409
- eISBN:
- 9781781707708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719084409.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter discusses the methodological difficulties in evaluating the effectiveness of regeneration initiatives before providing an evaluation of the east Manchester initiative which provides ...
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This chapter discusses the methodological difficulties in evaluating the effectiveness of regeneration initiatives before providing an evaluation of the east Manchester initiative which provides evidence to assist in the making of future urban policy. The overall evaluation, drawing on key performance indicators and other key evaluation mechanisms used by New East Manchester and NDC/Beacons, recognises some of the achievements of the initiative while considering the scale of the progress achieved against cost, disruption and deadweight factors.Less
This chapter discusses the methodological difficulties in evaluating the effectiveness of regeneration initiatives before providing an evaluation of the east Manchester initiative which provides evidence to assist in the making of future urban policy. The overall evaluation, drawing on key performance indicators and other key evaluation mechanisms used by New East Manchester and NDC/Beacons, recognises some of the achievements of the initiative while considering the scale of the progress achieved against cost, disruption and deadweight factors.