ABSTRACT
A counter argument to evidence-based planning is that evidence-based practices need to be balanced by the realization that some elements of transport and land use contexts are moving too quickly to furnish and fully rely on comprehensive evidence-based research. Continuing with the medical metaphor and borrowing from a burgeoning medical movement initiated in Britain could be of benefit. That movement, termed evidence-based practice, claims that medical prescriptions based on intuition, unsystematic clinical experience, and/or pathophysiologic rationale is insufficient. Evidence-based approaches have gained credence in other disciplines, including public health and business. A counter argument to evidence-based planning is that evidence-based practices need to be balanced by the realization that some elements of transport and land use contexts are moving too quickly to furnish and fully rely on comprehensive evidence-based research. With new travel options, new preferences for work and living and new forms of exchange, these dynamics will facilitate cities breaking out of existing and long periods of "stuckness."
