Browsing 2016 - 4th WPSC "Global crisis, planning & challenges to spatial justice in the North and in the South", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Јuly 3-8th by Author "Aarsæther, Nils"
In 2008 the Norwegian Parliament adopted a new Planning and Building Act. A few years after its implementation, the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation commissioned an evaluation of the act's planning section, in compliance with established management routines. The task was conveyed by The Research Council of Norway, and formulated as a research based evaluation. Through this research project, which the authors of this paper are involved in, the efficiency of the new planning system will be investigated by analyzing its basic parts. However, in real life it is the planner, not the researcher, who sees to it that all issues and questions are taken into consideration. The act's emphasis on comprehensiveness requires a methodology that allows the consistency of practical planning to be measured. The aim of this paper is to discuss to what extent the new and modified system allows planning to be carried out in a consistent way.