Study on the evaluation of county new urbanization development planning based on the S-CAD method:Taking Jia County,Shaanxi Province as an example
The relationship between urban and rural areas in China has undergone a transformation from urban-rural duality to urban-rural overall planning,urban-rural integration,and then to urban-rural integrated development.With the successful completion of the poverty alleviation task,China's new urbanization development is moving towards higher quality in the new era.The county seat is a key link in China's urban system that links cities and rural areas.As a national policy,the new urbanization and coordinated development of urban and rural areas in the county seat is a manifestation of national intentions.In the implementation of new urbanization,the focus of work has long been on large cities or rural areas,while the county-level urbanization work as a transitional zone between the two is relatively lagging.Currently,based on the importance of policies and the objectivity of existing problems,it is necessary to evaluate the preparation and implementation of relevant plans to ensure the smooth progress of the new urbanization.Previous research results have laid a good foundation for this article.However,there are still two shortcomings.One is that most of the existing research on county urbanization focuses on its development model and path issues,while only a few scholars have evaluated the development level and quality of county urbanization.The second is that in relevant evaluation studies,the attention paid to the planning text is not high,and more attention is paid to the evaluation of the implementation effect of the plan.Given this,this article combines previous research results and introduces the"S-CAD"evaluation method to evaluate the planning text from different perspectives of dominant and related perspectives,to provide a reference for the development of county urbanization and related planning.As a direct manifestation of the values of relevant stakeholders,planning schemes should be valued in planning evaluation.Based on the public policy attributes of urban and rural planning,using the S-CAD policy evaluation method,taking the text of"New Urbanization and Urban-Rural Overall Planning"in Jiaxian County,Shaanxi Province as an example,selecting the government as the main body of planning preparation and implementation as the leading perspective,deconstructs the content of the planning text,and analyzes the consistency,adequacy,and dependency of the planning stance,objectives,means,and expected results.The study found that:1)the planning text itself has a strong logic,and there are basic corresponding relationships between each link;2)in the planning text,there are many descriptions of solutions for industrial development and the resulting population issues,infrastructure,and public service facilities,while there are relatively few substantive solutions for ecological environment protection,transportation environment improvement,and population mobility.There are certain logical loopholes,and the logical chain needs to be further improved.Based on this,in the current context of territorial spatial planning,the corresponding relationship between various planning objectives,positioning,and content needs to be considered in the process of"multi planning in one",and the work of various departments also needs to be effectively connected.In this process,it is necessary to evaluate the rationality of various planning preparation and the practicality of implementation.The establishment of an entire process evaluation system for urban and rural planning based on the dual orientation of issues and objectives,namely,"pre-evaluation-planning scheme evaluation-planning implementation results/effectiveness evaluation",brooks no delay.In addition,attention needs to be paid to coordinating the interests of all parties in the planning process.First,it is necessary to design the system for planning implementation.Second,it is necessary to establish a rural-level governance system,strengthen the enthusiasm of villagers to participate in village governance,and improve public participation in the implementation of the plan.Third,we should cultivate"leaders"in rural development and actively explore the system of rural planners.China's urban and rural planning evaluation has long attached importance to the evaluation of planning effectiveness while ignoring the evaluation of planning texts,and the evaluation methods are mostly qualitative description and subjective evaluation,with less attention paid to the coordination of quantitative measurement and multiple stakeholders.The S-CAD policy evaluation method quantifies all aspects of policy formulation and provides a dynamic evaluation mechanism,which has a certain degree of prediction for the implementation of future policies.Therefore,it is necessary to introduce it into the evaluation of planning texts,combining existing qualitative evaluation methods,to provide a basis for formulating,implementing,and modifying urban and rural planning as public policies.