Graduates find positions in economic development policy making and analysis, working for city, regional, state, and national agencies, policy research organizations, and in private sector development firms. They also become specialists with nonprofit community development corporations and project managers for infrastructure and community development finance programs.
Students acquire the analytical tools to enable them to produce effective economic development policies and plans. They also gain perspective on regional and community social inequalities and the politics of planning. Finally, they learn about how community and regional assets, in social services as well as in the arts and culture, can build healthy diversified economies.
In this concentration, students learn how to:
- Create economic development strategies and plans
- Analyze local and regional economies with tools including regression, input-output, and economic base analysis
- Use GIS for spatial policy analysis
- Integrate participatory action research in economic development and community planning processes.
Students completing this concentration may wish to select courses from the following list:
- CRP 5170 Economic Development: Firms, Industries, Regions
- CRP 5090 Community Development Seminar
- CRP 6111 Immigrant Entrepreneurship
- CRP 6120 Devolution, Privatization, and the New Public Management
- CRP 6050 Urban Public Finance
- CRP 6640 Economics and Financing of Neighborhood Conservation and Preservation
- CRP 6430 Affordable Housing
- CRP 5080 Introduction to GIS
- CRP 5460 Introduction to Community and Environmental Dispute Resolution
- CRP 6210 Quantitative Techniques for Policy Analysis and Management
- CRP 6220 Planning and Policy Analysis
- CRP 6390 Regional Economic Impact Analysis
- CRP 6330 Methods of Regional Science and Planning
- CRP 6040 Urban Economics
- CRP 5840 Green Cities
- CRP 6580 Residential Development
- CRP 5320 Real Estate Development Process
- CRP 6012 Legal Aspects of Public Agency Decision Making
- CRP 5080 Introduction to GIS
- CRP 6650 Preservation Planning and Urban Change
- CRP 6700 Regional Planning and Development in Developing Nations
- CRP 6740 Urban Transformations in the Global South
- CRP 6760 Latin American Cities
- CRP 8010 Advanced Seminar in Urban & Regional Theory II (Location Theory)
- CRP 8300 Seminar in Regional Science Planning and Policy Analysis
Concentration Workshops (to be offered in multiple variants, as available):
- CRP 5074 Economic and Community Development Workshop
- CRP 5300 Neighborhood Planning Workshop
Faculty
I. Azis, R. Booth, N.Brooks, S. Christopherson, P. Clavel, K. Donaghy, J. Forester, M. Gonzalez, C. Lai, A. Sanchez, M. Warner
