ABSTRACT
The traditional concern in planning evaluation has been on the potential substantive impact of plans – costs and benefits of the plans, of these instrumental values together with distributional impact, e.g. in planning balance sheet; and these two impacts together with environmental consequences, e.g. in community impact analysis (Lichfield, 1996). The integration of sustainability aspects, however, has met with a large number of problems. With increasing attention on the discourse-based logic in planning evaluation interest has also been directed towards how plans succeed in integrating different sustainability factors. The point of departure for this frame of evaluation is that plans narrate a set of knowledge practices.
