Social Reporting for a City: A Perspective and Some Problems.
Expert InsightsPublished 1971
Considers how information about the functioning of a city can be fed back, through a social report, to help the city to act more effectively. A social report for a city should contain indicators--statistics about the city--related to the tasks it can undertake. In addition, the report should concentrate on equity, rather than on efficiency or effectiveness, have a short-term time perspective, be political, and reflect the perceived desires of the people and their dissatisfaction with the environment. Past efforts to produce such a social report are reviewed, and examples are given of suitable indicators for municipal services. 38 pp. Ref.
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- Year: 1971
- Pages: 38
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
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