Urban Planning 538:
Economic Development Planning
College of Architecture + Urban Planning
University Of Michigan, Winter 2012
TuTh 9:00AM - 10:30AM (2108 A&AB)
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History, Concepts and Politics of Local & Regional Economic Development

Jan 5: Course Introduction

[introductions of instructor and students; format and themes of course; short lecture on economic development planning]

Jan 11: History, Concepts and Politics I

Blakely, Edward James, and Nancey Green Leigh. 2010. Planning local economic development: theory and practice. 4th ed. Los Angeles: Sage. [Chapters 1,3]

Flammang, R. A. 1979. “Economic growth and economic development: Counterparts or competitors?” Economic Development and Cultural Change 28, 47-62

Galbraith, John Kenneth. "The Proper Purpose of Economic Development," in The Essential Galbraith . Boston: Mariner Books, 2001, pp. 109-117.

Rubin, Herbert J. "Shoot Anything That Flies; Claim Anything That Falls: Conversations With Economic Development Practitioners." Economic Development
Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1988, pp. 236-251.

see also:
Glaeser, Edward L. "Why Economists Still Like Cities." City Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1996, pp. 70-77.
Krugman, Paul. "Localization," in Geography and Trade. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1991, pp. 35-67.

Jan 13: History, Concepts and Politics II + Case Study of Benton Harbor, Michigan

Fitzgerald, Joan and Nancey Green Leigh. 2002. “Introduction” and “Redefining the Field of Local Economic Development.” In Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. London: Sage Publications.

Markusen, Ann, and Amy Glasmeier. 2008. Overhauling and Revitalizing Federal Economic Development Programs. Economic Development Quarterly 22 (2):83-91.
optional: 3 responses and 1 rejoinder to the Markusen & Glasmeier (2008) piece (above): Drabenstott, Mark. 2008. An Effective Overhaul of Federal Economic Development Policy: Response to Markusen and Glasmeier. Economic Development Quarterly 22 (2):92-98. Finkle, Jeffrey A. 2008. A Cautious Look Into Reconfiguring Federal Economic Development Programs. Economic Development Quarterly 22 (2):112-114. Singerman, Phillip. 2008. Repurposed Federal Economic Development Programs: A Practitioner's Perspective. Economic Development Quarterly 22 (2):99-106. Markusen, Ann, and Amy Glasmeier. 2008. Rejoinder: History, Leadership, Place Prosperity, Rationales, Competitiveness, Outcomes: A Response to Drabenstott, Finkle, John, and Singerman. Economic Development Quarterly 22 (2):115-118.

Don Peck. 2010. How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America. The Atlantic, March.

Jonathan, Miller, "Now That the Factories Are Closed, It's Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich." New York Times Magazine, Dec. 15, 2011. [Link]
(optional: "Behind the Cover Story" and "Benton Harbor: An Addendum")

see also:
Edward W. Hill. Principles for rethinking the federal government's role in economic development. Economic Development Quarterly 11.n4 (Nov 1998): pp299(14).

Wolman, Harold, and David Spitzley. "The Politics of Local Economic Development." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 1996, pp. 115-150.
Mier, Robert. Metaphors of Economic Development, in Bingham, Richard D., and Robert Mier, eds. 1993. Theories of Local Economic Development. Newbury Park: Sage. (Chapter 14, pp. 284-304).

PLACES: Cases of urban growth and decline

Jan 17 - 19: New Haven: The Rise and Fall

Rae, Douglas W. 2003. City: Urbanism and Its End. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press. [ebrary]
Tuesday: Preface + Chs. 1, 2, 3, 4
Thursday: Chs. 7, 10, 11 (optional: the rest of Part Two: Chs. 8, 9, 12)

Jan 24: Chicago and the Networks of the Manufacturing City

Lewis, Robert. 2008. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Selections: Introduction, Chs. 1, 2, 5, 7, Conclusion [ebrary]

Jan 26: WORK SESSION

selection of first round of topics; form editing groups of three

Jan 31 - Feb 2: Silicon Valley and the Emergence of the High-Tech Region

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1996. Regional Advantage : Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Jan 31: first half of book; Feb 2: second half.)

see also:
Karen Chapple, Ann Markusen, Greg Schrock, Daisaku Yamamoto and Pingkang Yu, 2004, Gauging Metropolitan "High-Tech" and "I-Tech" Activity, Economic Development Quarterly 18 (1): 10-29.
Havlick, David and Scott Kirsch. A Production Utopia? RTP and the North Carolina Research Triangle Southeastern Geographer; Nov 2004; 44 (2): 263-277.
David E. Arnstein, Venture Capital, in White, Bingham, Hill (2003)Business Angels, Adam Bock , in White, Bingham, Hill (2003)

Central Themes and Challenges of Economic Development

Feb 7: Clusters

Lewis, Robert. 2008. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 8). [ebrary]

Timothy Bresnahan,Alfonso Gambardella and AnnaLee Saxenian , ‘Old Economy’ Inputs for ‘New Economy’ Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys, in Breschi, Stefano Malerba, Franco (eds.), Clusters, Networks, and Innovation. 2006. Oxford, GBR: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 5) [ebrary]

Doeringer and Terkla, "Business Strategy and Cross-Industry Clusters,"

E. Bergman and E. Feser. Industrial and Regional Clusters, chapters 3-4

Feb 9: Urban Resilience

Foster, Kathryn. 2007. Snapping Back: What Makes Regions Resilient? National Civic Review.

Vale, Lawrence J., and Thomas J. Campanella. 2005. Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press. [selections: Introduction; Chs. 1, 3, 5, 9, Conclusion] [ebrary]

Feb 14: Economic Development in a Shrinking City

Alan Mallach (ed). Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland. Center for Community Progress. (selected chapters: Introduction, Chs. 1, 3, 7, 10, 11.) [link1 or link2]

see also:
Leaner, Greener Detroit:  A Report by the American Institute of Architects. Sustainable Design Assessment Team, Detroit, Michigan October 30-November 1, 2008. [link]
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley.  2009.   The Detroit Project:  A plan for solving America’s greatest urban disaster.  The New Republic.   December 9.   [link]

Feb 16: Equity and Economic Development

Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. Westminster, MD: Knopf. [selections] [ebrary]

Norman Krumholtz, "Equitable approaches to local economic development," Policy Studies Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 1999).

Soja, Edward W. 2010. Seeking Spatial Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [selections] [ebrary]

Feb. 21: Sustainable Economic Development - an Oxymoron?

Joan Fitzgerald, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development [selections]

see also:
G. Rendell. 2012. Sustainability's not a subject. Inside Higher Ed. January 31. [link]

[more readings to be added]

Feb 23: WORK SESSION

discussion of drafts of first-round entries; selection of second-round topics

Feb 28 - Mar 1: Mid-semester break (no classes)

Strategies of Economic Development

Mar 6 - 8: Funding Economic Development

selections from: White, Sammis B., Richard D. Bingham, and Edward W. Hill, eds. 2003. Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

Mar 13: University Towns and Economic Development

Perry, David C. and Wim Wiewel. 2006. University As Urban Developer : Case Studies and Analysis. Armonk, NY: Sharpe. [selections] [ebrary]

Mar 15: Infrastructure and Megaprojects as Economic Development

Altshuler, Alan A., and David E. Luberoff. 2003. Mega-Projects : The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Washington, DC, USA: Brookings Institution Press. [selections] [ebrary]

Banister, David and Joseph Berechman. 1999. Transport Investment and Economic Development. London: Routledge. [selections] [ebrary]

Mar 20: Place Marketing/Place Branding

Ward, Stephen V. 1998. Selling Places : The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities, 1850-2000. Routledge. [selections]

Mar 22: The Tourist City: Fragile Economic Strategy or Path to Growth?

[including case of Las Vegas]

Mar 27: Sports Stadiums as a Growth Sector?

Mar 29: Arts and Economic Development

Apr 3: Going Big/Going Global: the Case of Walmart

Simon Head, 2004. Inside the Leviathan. The New York Review of Books. Vol. 51 (20): Dec. 16
LA Times 2004 articles on Wal-Mart

see also:
Wal-Mart home page • stores • community impact
PBS Frontline: "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" (detailed on-line resources; and watch the movie on-line).

UCLA examines ‘Wal-Martization’ Urban planning course studies supercenter’s costly impact on regional, global economies
Bay Area Economic Forum, "Supercenters and the Transformation of the Bay Area Grocery Industry: Issues, Trends, and Impacts," (January 2004). pdf

Newrules.org: The Hometown Advantage: Reviving Locally Owned Businesses and their "Big Box Economic Impact Studies"

theboxtank [a weblog about big-box urbanism]

Apr 5: Going Small/Going Local: the Local Investment/Buy Local Movement

Shuman, Michael H. 2007. Small-Mart Revolution : How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2nd Edition). San Francisco, CA, USA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. [ebrary]

see also:
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)

PRESENTATIONS & CONCLUSION

Apr 10 - 12: Student Presentations

Apr 17: Final Lecture and Review