A look at the present plight and the future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by NICHOLAS TAYLOR Counting the Costs - and the Benefits
The most bitterly criticised part of the Roskill Commission's report on the Third London Airport has been the Cost Benefit Analysis carried out by. its research team. This new method has been described as ' a porridge of bogus accountancy' which takes no account of human values; but in fact it has already been used successfully, particularly in Transport, to assess who precisely will benefit from large public investments. Speakers include
CHRISTOPHER FOSTER , Head of the Urban Economics Unit at LSE, and PETER SELF, Professor of Public Administration at LSE. Produced by LEONIE COHN
(14 Mar: Vandalism and Decay)