A Benefit Cost Analysis Of Urban Redevelopment

Originally published in 1987, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban and Regional Planning, outlines the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of urban and regional planning. The theory of CBA is developed with examples to illustrate the principles, it also deals with details of the applications and covers issues such as local health and social services provision, local economic development and regional policy evaluation, and planning in less developed countries – as well as the conventional land-use issues of physical planning.

... The preliminary objective of this paper is to present empirical estimates of certain benefits and cost of an urban renewal project in the West End of Boston; assesses the impact of the project on particular groups (consumers of housing services, property owners, businesses) and evaluates gains and losses to society; tis item was in the BRA collection ...