作者开宗明义,指出长期以来,规划研究者们在如何获知规划目标是否实现这个方面缺乏开展实证分析的专业能力,因此,规划师们需要构建一种超越现有知识结构局限的新评价方法。通过这种方法,能够了解规划成功实施的程度如何,规划的哪些方面失败了,哪些方面实现了目标,及如何运用实证分析去进行调查研究。该研究的主要目的是演示如何在规划成功与否 The authors made the point that the planners have long lacked the expertise to do empirical work on how to know if their planning goals are fulfilled, and planners need to build a new assessment that goes beyond the limits of existing knowledge structures. In this way, it is possible to understand how well the plan has been successfully implemented, what aspects of the plan have failed, what has been achieved, and how empirical analysis can be used to conduct the research. The main purpose of this research is to demonstrate how to succeed in planning