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Special Studies in Urban Studies and Planning: Economic Development Planning Skills
January IAP 2007
Topics
- Economic Data Sources and Profiling the Local and Regional Economy
- Industry and Cluster Analysis
- Retail and Commercial Real Estate Market Analysis
- Resource and Asset Assessment and Discussion of Economic Profile Assignment
Readings
- Reamer, A., and J. Cortright. Chapter 3 in Socioeconomic Data for Understanding Your Regional Economy. Newton, MA: Andrew Reamer and Associates, 1998, pp. 23-46.
- Mt. Auburn Associates. A Strategy for Fairhaven’s Economic Future. pp. 8 -10, A1- A8, data tables and figures. (Unpublished report, 1993.)
- Bendavid-Val, A. Chapter 7 in Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991. ISBN: 0275937518.
- Taplin, I. “Recent Manufacturing Changes in the U.S. Apparel Industry: The Case of North Carolina.” In Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994, pp. 328-344. ISBN: 1566391695.
- Mt. Auburn Associates. A Strategy for Fairhaven’s Economic Future . pp. C-1 to C-29. (Unpublished report, 1993.)
- Held, J. “Clusters as an Economic Development Tool: Beyond the Pitfalls.” Economic Development Quarterly 10, no. 3 (1996): 249-261.
- Hammer, Siler, and George Associates. Brockton Supermarket Study . (Unpublished report, 1995.)
- K. Seidman Consulting Services and BAE. Real Estate Market Analysis: Old Central Fire Station Property, Marlborough, Massachusetts . pp. 19-29. (Unpublished report, 2003.)
- Seidman, K. “New Approaches to Urban Market Analysis.” (Unpublished article, 2004.)
- Mt. Auburn Associates. A Strategy for Fairhaven’s Economic Future . pp. 10-16, B-1 to B-38. (Unpublished report, 1993.)
- Clark, P., and A. Kays. Labor Market Profiling. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 1997, pp. 9-34. ISBN: 0898432170.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.