The need for simple methods of policy analysis and planning. -- The policy analysis process. -- Crosscutting methods. -- Verifying, defining, and detailing the problem. -- Establishing evaluation criteria. -- Identifying alternatives. -- Evaluating alternative policies. -- Displaying alternatives and distinguishing among them. -- Monitoring and evaluating implemented policies. -- Downtown development. -- Defending against accusations of discriminatory housing practices. -- Municipal garbage: solid-waste collection methods. -- University on campus parking policies. -- Emergency aid for home heating fuel-developing an allocation formula. -- A state tax on plastic shopping bags. -- Publlic-private redevelopment projects: the case of underground Atlanta.

1. City planning
2. Political planning
3. Public ad
4. inistration
5. Policy sciences -- Researcs