URPL 6670 - Urban Economic Development

Summer 2010 Registration URP 6670
Examines the process of local economic development and seeks from the theory of economic change essential modes of policy intervention. Local economies are seen to serve these central functions: employment,fiscal betterment, and growth enabling certain efficiencies of public and private goods and services, and a greater diversity of opportunities. Weighs the merits of indigenous development versus external recruitment, and both in relation to regionalcarrying capacities that ultimately define growth’s limits. Addresses tools needed to analyze, induce, and regulate change. Posits economic development in relation to physical planning via strategic policy.Semester Hours: 3to 3
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