I will teach this course again in the winter 2023 semester.
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Urban
Planning 584: Economic Development Planning |
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Prof.
Scott Campbell |
student-created blogs: |
student-created maps: |
quick links |
Intro |
growth, decline, gentrification |
substance and image Jan 20-27 |
values: equity, sustainable, resilient Feb 1 - 8 |
sectors |
tools, strategies, funding |
new tech, new economies |
conclusions |
1. Marketing (Jan 27) |
Schedule of Weekly Readings (please email me if you find any broken links, missing readings, etc.)
Jan 6: Course Introduction |
[introductions of instructor and students; format and themes of course; short lecture on economic development planning; see also the link to course overview] useful readings as an introduction to the field: 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 Glaeser, Edward L. "Why Economists Still Like Cities." City Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1996, pp. 70-77. -> In class discussion on characteristics of a strong versus vulnerable local economies. see class google folder |
Growth, Development, Gentrification, Decline, CRISIS |
Jan 11: Can Cities Grow Too Fast? Economic Development in Boomtowns and Rapidly Growing Megacities |
Broadway, M. J. and D. D. Stull. 2006. Meat processing and Garden City, KS: boom and bust. Journal of Rural Studies 22: 55-66. Brown, Chip. 2013. "North Dakota Went Boom," The New York Times. Jan 31. [link] [images + audio] Campanella, Thomas J. 2008. Concrete Dragon : China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World. New York, NY, USA: Princeton Architectural Press. (Introduction: "The Urbanism of Ambition" and Epilogue: "China Reinvents the City") [EBooks] The Guardian: The rise of megacities – interactive [link] and Shanghai in pictures + "Walking Shanghai: from the 14th century to the future" see also: |
[map of student examples of growing and shrinking cities, including entries from both this year's and past years' classes] |
Jan 13: Shrinking Cities: Growing Too Slowly |
Flammang, R. A. 1979. “Economic growth and economic development: Counterparts or competitors?” Economic Development and Cultural Change 28, 47-62 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.) Dewar, M.E. and J.M. Thomas eds. 2013. The city after abandonment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Chapter 13. Planning for Better, Smaller Places After Population Loss: Lessons from Youngstown and Flint, by Margaret Dewar, Christina Kelly, and Hunter Morrison) [EBooks] here is a link to a handout for small group (breakout room) work today: file name "URP584w22 Jan 13 Shrinking Cities scenario" 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] |
Jan 18: The Janus Face of Gentrification: causes and consequences |
Marketplace, York & Fig: at the Intersection of Change [wonderful multimedia -- be sure to listen to the audio stories] [UPDATED LINK] Schwarz, Benjamin. 2010. Gentrification and Its Discontents: Manhattan never was what we think it was. The Atlantic, May 11. Hackworth, Jason, and Neil Smith. 2001. "The changing state of gentrification." Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 92 (4):464-477. Peter Moskowitz. 2015. The two Detroits: a city both collapsing and gentrifying at the same time. The Guardian. Feb 5. [link] Jana Kasperkevicz. 2014. Study of poverty-ridden neighborhoods shows gentrification is not ruining enough of America. The Guardian. Dec 10. [link] see also:
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Jan 20: Place Marketing/Place Branding: Introduction, Concepts and the Politics of Selling Places |
Ward, Stephen V. 1998. Selling Places : The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities, 1850-2000. Routledge. [Ch. 9] [in Canvas; see also google books -- limited view] see also: |
Jan 25: Local Economic Consequences of the Pandemic and Responses |
Below is an initial list of specific readings and useful sources for information. Please select a subset of the articles or sites listed below and read or review. There is a huge amount of new information appearing daily, and it's hard to keep up with the data, stories, speculations. Your task: read a number of various sources so you can begin to develop answers to these questions: 1. How is the pandemic (and the resulting stay-at-home policies) affecting production, consumption, employment? 2. What sectors and occupations are hardest hit? 3. How does this crisis painfully reveal the interconnections between different sectors? 4. What policies are local, state and federal governments taking to mitigate the crisis? 5. What other policies might they pursue? 6. What can we learn from other countries and from past crises (e.g., the Great Depression, the financial crisis of 2008, etc.)? 7. Is the pandemic triggering new demographic shifts, especially in migration? BREAKOUT ROOM TASK: (1) Identify a short list of the biggest post-pandemic challenges that local economic development that cities and neighborhoods will face. (2) Share and discuss ideas for your Assignment 2 projects ("Economic Development in (and after) a Pandemic: Case studies" -- due March 10) Grabar, Henry. 2021. U-Hauls for the Creative Class: Where will Americans move if their jobs let them work anywhere? Slate, Jan 27, 2021. Scipioni, Jade. 2021. The states Americans headed to the most in 2020, according to U-Haul. CNBC. Jan 25. Nellie Bowles. 2021. They Can’t Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough. The New York Times. Jan 14. St. Louis Fed. 2020. The “She-Cession” Persists, Especially for Women of Color. Dec 24. Christopher de Bellaigue. 2020. The end of tourism? The Guardian. Jun 18. Michael Pollan. 2021. The efficiency curse. We built a ‘better’ food system. The cost: It couldn’t handle a pandemic. The Washington Post. Feb 5. ___ Brookings page on Coronavirus [link] Cleveland Fed: Covid page Economic Policy Institute page on Coronavirus [link] Timothy Bartik, Senior economist, Upjohn Institute: his useful twitter feed on the crisis MRSC: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local Government Fiscal Impacts • Six Suggested Actions for Planners during the Extended COVID-19 Pandemic NCSL: The Pandemic’s Effect on the Economy and Workers (COVID-19 AND EMPLOYMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES) UM survey: State's local economies still struggling with COVID impacts The Detroit News. 9/29/2021 OECD: The territorial impact of COVID-19: Managing the crisis and recovery across levels of government. 10 May 2021 CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research: Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: Economic Impact of COVID-19 HBS: COVID-19 Business Impact Center UM Ford School: Michigan local economies still struggling with the pandemic effects. 29 Sep 2021. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP): Tracking the COVID-19 Economy’s Effects on Food, Housing, and Employment Hardships
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Substance and Image |
Jan 27: Place Marketing/Place Branding: Student Examples |
Each of you is to locate an interesting example of place marketing and briefly present the image in class. Be ready to evaluate/critique the image and place it in context. Task for class: By Tuesday evening, please find an example of "place marketing" / place branding. (print, web, video). Then do one of the following. Be sure to include on the slide:
[for full instructions, see assignment page] |
Squaring the Circle: Promoting Just, Sustainable, Resilient Cities |
Feb 1: Unequal Cities: Poverty and Uneven Development -- or why, in an era of growing technological mobility, are a few cities winning most of the wealth (and the rest are struggling)? |
Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. Westminster, MD: Knopf. (Chapter 2: The Ends and Means of Development) Krumholz, N., & Hexter, K. W. (Eds.). (2019). Advancing Equity Planning Now. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Please read the introduction -- but other chapters may be of interest as well: e.g., 1. Growth without Displacement 2. The Evolution of the Community Development Industry 3. Economic Diversity in Low-Status Communities). [available through UM Library's Project Muse] Abel Valenzuela Jr.. 2006. Economic Development in Latino Communities: Incorporating Marginal and Immigrant Workers. in Paul Ong and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.), Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Chapter 6) [EBooks] Sutton, Stacey A. 2010. "Rethinking Commercial Revitalization: A Neighborhood Small Business Perspective." Economic Development Quarterly 24 (4) see also: |
Feb 3: Sustainable Economic Development: An Oxymoron or Win-Win? |
Tumber, C. (2013). Fields, Factories, and Workshops: Green Economic Development on the Smaller-Metro Scale. in S. M. Wachter & K. A. Zeuli (Eds.), The City in the Twenty-First Century : Revitalizing American Cities (pp. 224-241). Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [EBooks] see also this video lecture by Tumber, and her own full length book below) Hess, D. J. (2012). Urban and Industrial Environments Series: Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy : Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. (Chapter 5: The Greening of Regional Industrial Clusters) [EBooks] Campbell, Scott. 2016. The Planner's Triangle Revisited: Sustainability and the Evolution of a Planning Ideal That Can't Stand Still, Journal of the American Planning Association, 82-4, 388-397 Agyeman, J. (2005). Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice. New York, NY, USA: New York University Press (NYU Press). (Ch. 4 Just Sustainability in Practice, pp. 107-132). [EBooks] Oden, M. D. (2010). Equity: The Forgotten E in Sustainable Development. In S. A. Moore (Ed.), Pragmatic sustainability : theoretical and practical tools (1st ed., pp. 31-49). London ; New York, NY: Routledge. see also: |
Feb 8: Resilient Cities / Fragile Cities |
Resilience, like sustainability, has entered our vocabulary to describe a positive characteristic of a system (see this google ngram graphic of the two interrelated terms). Resilience is an appealing trait: the ability to recover from a shock (natural disaster, economic crisis, war, factory closing, pandemic, etc.). We explore the current focus on building resilient local & regional economies. 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] [EBooks] see also: Texas as a recent case study of the challenges in making cities and regions resilient (in the face of hurricanes, cold weather-induced power outages, heatwaves, large population growth, inadequate investment in public infrastructure). a few articles: Through Chattering Teeth, Texans Criticize Extended Power Outages (NY Times 16Feb2021); A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids (NY Times 16Feb2021); Resilient Cities series. The Guardian, |
Sectors of the Post-Industrial City: Tourism, Arts and Sports |
Feb 10: The Tourist City: Fragile Economic Strategy or Path to Growth? |
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and K. Soureli (2012). "Cultural Tourism as an Economic Development Strategy for Ethnic Neighborhoods." Economic Development Quarterly 26(1): 50-72. Sandercock, Leonie and Kim Dovey. 2002. Pleasure, politics, and the "public interest": Melbourne's riverscape revitalization. Journal of the American Planning Association. Spring 2002; 68, pp 151-64. Moehring, Eugene. 2002. Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970– 2000, in Rothman, Hal and Mike Davis (eds). 2002. THE Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. University of California Press. (pp. 73-98) [EBooks] OPTIONAL: see also these recent readings on the impact of COVID-19 on tourism: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti. 2021. The COVID-19 travel shock hit tourism-dependent economies hard. Brookings. [newly added] other optional reading: Hospers, Gert-Jan. 2010. 'Lynch's The Image of the City after 50 Years: City Marketing Lessons from an Urban Planning Classic', European Planning Studies, 18: 12, 2073 — 2081.Bickford-Smith, Vivian. 2009. Creating a City of the Tourist Imagination: The Case of Cape Town, `The Fairest Cape of Them All' Urban Studies 46: 1763 |
Feb 15: Arts and Economic Development |
Currid, Elizabeth. How Art and Culture Happen in New York: Implications for Urban Economic Development. Journal of the American Planning Association 73. 4 (Autumn 2007): 454-467. Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa. 2010. Arts and Culture in Urban or Regional Planning: A Review and Research Agenda. Journal of Planning Education and Research 29(3) 379– Carl Grodach. 2011. Art Spaces in Community and Economic Development: Connections to Neighborhoods, Artists, and the Cultural Economy. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 31(1) 74–85. Anne Gadwa Nicodemus. 2013. Artists and Gentrification: Sticky Myths, Slippery Realities. ( April 5). [link]
see also: Rushton, Michael, ed. 2013. Creative Communities : Art Works in Economic Development. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press. [EBooks] Throsby, David. 2010. The Economics of Cultural Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [EBooks] COVID-19 RSFLG Data and Assessment Working Group. 2021. ANALYSIS: COVID-19’s Impacts on Arts and Culture. Argonne National Laboratory. Jan 4. OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19). Culture shock: COVID-19 and the cultural and creative sectors. 7 September 2020 |
Feb 17: Sports as a Growth Sector? |
Rosentraub, Mark and David Swindell. 2009. Of devils and details: bargaining for successful public/private partnerships between cities and sports teams. Public Administration Quarterly. Vol. 33(1), Spring. Nelson, Arthur C. "Prosperity or Blight? A Question of Major League Stadia Locations." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 255-265. Baade, Robert A. The Impact of Sports Teams and Facilities on Neighborhood Economies: What is the Score? in Kern, William S. (editor), Economics of Sports. Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [EBooks]
see also: Binyamin Appelbaum, 2014. Does Hosting the Olympics Actually Pay Off? The New York Times. August 5. [link] Garofalo, Pat and Travis Waldron. 2012. If You Build It, They Might Not Come: The Risky Economics of Sports Stadiums. The Atlantic. Sept 7. [link] Ken Belson. 2015. Albatross of Debt Weighs on Super Bowl City. The New York Times, Jan 25. [link] David Uberti. 2014. How American sports franchises are selling their cities short. The Guardian. Sept 22. [link] Long, Judith Grant. 2012. Public-Private Partnerships for Major League Sports Facilities. London: Taylor & Francis Group. [EBooks] Propheter, Geoffrey and Megan E. Hatch. 2015. Evaluating Lease-Purchase Financing for Professional Sports Facilities, Urban Affairs Review 51(6), 905–925. |
Tools, Strategies, Funding |
Feb 22: Common Methods and Data Sources to Analyze Local Economies (including economic base and multipliers; industry versus occupation; location quotients; economic impact evaluation) |
Davis, H. Craig “Economic Base Analysis” Regional Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation, Chapter 2 (also in Ebooks) [you might also tour some of the other chapters to get a sense of the range of methods and strategies to measure impact] Isserman, Andrew M. 2000. Economic base studies for urban and regional planning. Pp. 174-193 In Rodwin and Sanyal, eds. The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges, 1950-2000. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research. Stevens, Benjamin and Lahr, Michael. 1988. “Regional Economic Multipliers: Definition, Measurement, and Application.” EDQ 2,1: 88-96. Optional/background readings: Tiebout, Charles M. "Exports and Regional Economic Growth." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 64, No. 2, April 1956, pp. 160-164. North, Douglass C. "Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 63, No. 3, June 1955, pp. 243-258. Also: an overview of Assignment 3 (Local Economic Portraits), including sharing ideas for case studies. |
Feb 24: No class |
We will not hold class today (Thursday, Feb 22) |
SESSION TO BE RESCHEDULED: Going Small/Going Local: the Local Investment/Buy Local Movement |
Imbroscio, David L; Williamson, Thad; Alperovitz, Gar. 2003. Local policy responses to globalization: Place-based ownership models of economic enterprise. Policy Studies Journal. Feb. Shuman, Michael H. 2007. The Small-Mart Revolution : How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2nd Edition). San Francisco, CA, USA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. (Introduction and Part One) [EBooks] David A. Fleming and Stephan J. Goetz. 2011. Does Local Firm Ownership Matter? Economic Development Quarterly, August. vol. 25, 3: pp. 277-281. see also: ------ we might contrast to the case of Wal-Mart: Emek Basker. 2007. The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Vol 21(3). Summer, 177–198. Simon Head, 2004. Inside
the Leviathan. The New York Review of Books. Vol. 51 (20):
Dec. 16 Hemphill, Thomas A. 2008. Demonising Wal-Mart: What Do the Facts Tell Us? The Journal of Corporate Citizenship; Autumn, 26-30. Stone, Kenneth G. Impact of Walmart Stores on Iowa Communities: 1983- 1993, Economic Development Review, Vol. 13, #2 (Spring 1995), 60-69 see also: see also these books on Wal-Mart in [EBooks]]: |
Mid-Winter Break: no classes Mar 1-5 |
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Mar 8: NO Class (tentative) |
instructor out of town at external review/university planning program |
Mar 10: Economic Development in (and after) a Pandemic: Case studies |
student presentations of Assignment 2 |
Mar 15: Funding Economic Development: Introduction and Tax Increment Financing |
Stephen Malpezzi, "Local Economic Development and Its Finance: An Introduction,"in White, Sammis B., Richard D. Bingham, and Edward W. Hill, eds. 2003. Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Biere, David and Carla Kayanan, Improving TIF Transparency and Accountability, Towards a Consolidated View of TIF Activities in Michigan, 2014. Rachel Weber, "Tax Incremental Financing in Theory and Practice," in White, Sammis B., Richard D. Bingham, and Edward W. Hill, eds. 2003. Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Steiner, Frederick and Kent Butler. "Economic and Real Estate Development," (Section on capital improvement, pp 401-2 and TIFs, pp. 403-5) in Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007, pp. 401-2. OPTIONAL: New York Times: "United States of Subsidies" (Dec 2012). [link] see also: Curious City: Untangling TIFs with Sharpies (WBEZ video) |
Mar 17: Funding Economic Development: Business Improvement Districts and Enterprise/Empowerment Zones |
Mitchell, Jerry. "Business Improvement Districts and the 'New' Revitalization of Downtown." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 115-123. Boarnet, Marion G. "Enterprise Zones and Job Creation: Linking Evaluations and Practice." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2001, pp. 242-254. Elvery, J. A. (2009). "The Impact of Enterprise Zones on Resident Employment." Economic Development Quarterly 23(1): 44-59. Steiner, Frederick and Kent Butler. "Economic and Real Estate Development," (Section on financing) in Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007, pp. 406-14. Blakely, Edward James, and Nancey Green Leigh. 2010. Planning local economic development: theory and practice. 5th ed. Los Angeles: Sage. [Ch. 8, 9] see also: Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority Sutton, S. A. (2010). "Rethinking Commercial Revitalization: A Neighborhood Small Business Perspective." Economic Development Quarterly 24(4): 352-371. Hall, P. (1982). Enterprise zones: a justification. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 6(3), 416-421. Anderson, John E. Wassmer, Robert W. 2000. Bidding for Business : The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area. Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [EBooks] Chapter 1. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). 2015. Economic Zones in the ASEAN. Industrial Parks, Special Economic Zones, Eco Industrial Parks, Innovation Districts As Strategies For Industrial Competitiveness. prepared by UNIDO Country Office in Viet Nam. [link] |
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Mar 22: Community Benefits Agreements |
Wolf-Powers, L. (2010). Community benefits agreements and local government: A review of recent evidence. Journal of the American Planning Association, 76(2), 141-159. Leland, Saito, and Truong Jonathan. 2014. "The L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement: Evaluating the Agreement Results and Shifting Political Power in the City." Urban Affairs Review 51 (2):263-289. Been, V. (2010). Community benefits agreements: A new local government tool or another variation on the exactions theme? The University of Chicago Law Review, 77(1), 5-35. Patterson, K. L., Ranahan, M., Silverman, R. M., & Yin, L. (2017). Community benefits agreements (CBAs): A typology for shrinking cities. The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 37(3), 231-247. Neil deMause. 2022. What Ever Happened to CBAs? The Rise and Fall of ‘Community Benefits Agreements’ in NYC. City Limits. [link] see also: Nadler, M. L. (2011). The constitutionality of community benefits agreements: Addressing the exactions problem. The Urban Lawyer, 43(2), 587-625. Musil, T. A., Dr. (2012). The sleeping giant: Community benefit agreements and urban development. The Urban Lawyer, 44(4), 827-831,833-851. Nicholas J. Marantz (2015) What Do Community Benefits Agreements Deliver? Evidence From Los Angeles, Journal of the American Planning Association, 81:4, 251-267 Larissa Larsen. 2009. The Pursuit of Responsible Development: Addressing Anticipated Benefits and Unwanted Burdens through Community Benefit Agreements. CLOSUP Working Paper Series Number 9 February, University of Michigan. [link] Baxamusa, Murtaza H. 2008. "Empowering Communities through Deliberation The Model of Community Benefits Agreements." Journal of Planning Education and Research 27 (3):261-276. Lisa Berglund (2020) Early Lessons From Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance, Journal of the American Planning Association. [just added] CERA: Community Empowerment Program • Good Jobs First and the California Partnership for Working Families: Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable • Partnership for Working Families: Policy & Tools: Community Benefits Agreements and Policies In Effect • Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA): Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) • LAX MASTER PLAN COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT (CBA) 2007 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT • Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Community benefits agreements: A tool for more equitable • development? |
New Technologies, New Economies, New Regions |
Mar 24: Silicon Valley: the Emergence of a High-Tech Region |
Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1996. Regional Advantage : Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (read as much as necessary to gain a rich sense of her main arguments) [note: this book has limited access as an E-book via the UM Library. try this link; otherwise, it's a good, inexpensive book to have on your economic development bookshelf] Markusen, Ann. 1999. Sticky places in slippery space: A typology of industrial districts. in Gertler, Meric S. Barnes, Trevor J. (eds.), Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy : New Industrial Geography : Regions, Regulations and Institutions. Florence, KY: Routledge. (pp. 98-124) [EBooks] Saxenian, AnnaLee; Sabel, Charles. 2008. Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the "Periphery": The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building. Economic Geography 84:4 (Oct.), 379-94. see also: PBS "American Experience": Silicon Valley (link) (alt link) David A. Laws. Exploring Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Heritage Trail. Medium. Jan 23, 2020. Natalie Holmes. 2021. CalExodus: Are People Leaving California? Policy Brief. California Policy Lab. March 4. (addresses the question: are people fleeing the Bay Area during the pandemic?) |
Mar 29: Beyond Silicon Valley: the Rise of High Tech Regions and the "Cluster" Strategy |
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) [EBooks] Robert D. Atkinson, Mark Muro and Jacob Whiton. 2019. THE CASE for GROWTH CENTERS: How to spread tech innovation across America. Brookings and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF). [link] Rohe, William M.. Metropolitan Portraits : Research Triangle : From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence. Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. (Chapter 2: The Birth of the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area) [EBooks] Lepore, J. (2014). The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong. The New Yorker, June 23. E. Bergman and E. Feser. Industrial and Regional Clusters, chapters 3-4 [new link] see also: Krugman, Paul. "Localization," in Geography and Trade. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1991, pp. 35-67. Lewis, Robert. 2008. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 8). [EBooks] Harold, Wolman, and Hincapie Diana. 2014. "Clusters and Cluster-Based Development Policy." Economic Development Quarterly 29 (2):135-149. O'Mara, Margaret Pugh. 2004. Cities of Knowledge : Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [eBooks] |
Mar 31: University Towns and Economic Development |
Steven Mintz. 2022. The Revolution in Higher Education Is Already Underway. Higher Ed Gamma. Jan 12. Perry, David C. and Wim Wiewel. 2006. University As Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis. Armonk, NY: Sharpe. [Chs. 1, 3, 16, 17] [EBooks] Fischer, Karin, 2015, Why Universities Alone Aren't Going to Save Your Economy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 6. Etienne, Harley. 2012. Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. [introduction] [link via Project Muse - UM authentication required] see also: information on the UM North Campus Research Complex (NCRC) Lane, Jason E., and Johnstone, D. Bruce, eds. Universities and Colleges As Economic Drivers. Albany, US: SUNY Press, 2014. [EBooks] Michigan's University Research Corridor makes strong showing among eight leading U.S. research clusters [link] [new reading] Anderson Economic Group, LLC. 2018. Empowering Michigan: 11th Edition of the Economic Impact Report of Michigan’s University Research Corridor. (Commissioned by Michigan's University Research Corridor: Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University). Martin Slagter. 2017. University of Michigan fills void Pfizer left in Ann Arbor a decade ago. MLive. Jan 29. Chenmarch, David W. 2017. Where Halls of Ivy Meet Silicon Dreams, a New City Rises. The New York Times. March 22. [link] Freedman, Josh. 2013. Why American Colleges Are Becoming a Force for Inequality. The Atlantic. May 16. Marcus, Jon. 2017. Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students. PBS News Hour. January 3. Siegfried, John J., Allen R. Sanderson, and Peter McHenry. 2007. "The economic impact of colleges and universities." Economics of Education Review 26 (5). Michael Mitchell, Michael Leachman, and Kathleen Masterson. 2016. Funding Down, Tuition Up: State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Quality and Affordability at Public Colleges. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. August 15. Lee Gardner. 2018. How to Market a College in a Troubled Locale. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Jan 1. [link] (on Detroit) |
Apr 5: Infrastructure and Megaprojects as Economic Development [revised date] |
Altshuler, Alan A., and David E. Luberoff. 2003. Mega-Projects : The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Washington, DC, USA: Brookings Institution Press. [Chs. 1, 2, 3, 6, 8] [EBooks] Flyvbjerg, B. and S. Buhl. 2002.. "Underestimating costs in public works projects: Error or lie?" Journal of the American Planning Association 68(3): 279-295. |
Apr 7: Student-choice: Economic Impact Studies & Exploring Alternatives to the Current Economic System (e.g., Capitalism) |
Thank you for answering the survey. Many themes emerged. We build this session around the top two choices. FIRST HALF OF CLASS: Economic Impact Analysis (EIA), using Film Industry Subsidies in Michigan as an Example We will use the example of the State of Michigan's brief efforts (ca. 2008 - 2015) to attract the movie industry to the state as a case study of EIA. Be ready to critique its methods and conclusions. (Note: there are some efforts underway to bring back film subsidies to the state. Here's a Detroit Free Press story.) Please read these two studies: If you have time, these are also worthwhile readings: • Steven R. Miller and Abdul Abdulkadri, The Economic Impact of Michigan’s Motion Picture Production Industry and the Michigan Motion Picture Production Credit, Center for Economic Analysis, Michigan State University, February 6, 2009 [link] ______ Second HALF OF CLASS: Exploring Alternatives to the Current Economic System (e.g., Capitalism) [Note: this is a compelling and daunting topic. There is a very long history of critiques, defenses and alternatives (reformist and revolutionary) to capitalism. There is also a wide variation in what we mean by capitalism and all its variations. The core question: How can a larger understanding of how capitalism works — and its positive and negative consequences — shape how we do local economic development?] Block F. 2008. Swimming Against the Current: The Rise of a Hidden Developmental State in the United States. Politics & Society. 36(2):169-206. [in Canvas]
see also: Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & John Tomaney (2007) What Kind of Local and Regional Development and for Whom?, Regional Studies, 41:9, 1253-1269, DOI: 10.1080/00343400701543355 Gibson-Graham JK. Diverse economies: performative practices for `other worlds’. Progress in Human Geography. 2008;32(5):613-632. doi:10.1177/0309132508090821 Giorgos Kallis. 2018. Degrowth. Economy, Key Ideas. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing. [EBSCO link via umich Libraries] Gibson-Graham, J.K. & Dombroski, K. 2020. The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Cheltenham, UK: Edgar Elgar. [selected chapters available] see also these podcasts: BBC, In Our Time: "Capitalism", "Marx," "The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)", "David Ricardo", "The Industrial Revolution"
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Apr 12 - 14: Presentations of Assignment 3: Economic Portraits of a Small Urban Spaces [revised date] |
depending on class size, allow 5-7 minutes (single presenter) or 10 - 12 minutes (group of 2) per presentation (including time for Q&A) see assignment page for more instructions, and google doc page for schedule. |
Apr 19: Last Class -- Course Synthesis |
[NOTE: different location for final class: 2104 Art & Architecture Building, the second floor auditorium/lecture hall] [a map] This last session will provide an opportunity to reflect on the course, and develop a set of principles for good local economic development planning. TASK: Each student is to prepare a concise, insightful distillation of what have been, for you, the most important or resonant (or disconcerting) lessons/principles/ideas/themes in your encounters with local economic development. I welcome a range of approaches and themes, and I encourage you to be rigorous and creative. One format option might be to develop 4-7 lessons / principles about local economic development planning. You are to prepare several items: (b) A one-page (single-spaced) narrative that concisely explores these ideas. [to be uploaded to Canvas] |
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Other suggested readings:
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).
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.
Don Peck. 2010. How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America. The Atlantic, March.
Sanders, Heywood T. 1998. Convention center follies. Public Interest; Summer ; 132 (pp. 58-72).
Sanders, Heywood T. 2014. Convention center follies politics, power, and public investment in American cities. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [link]
Judd, Dennis R., and Dick Simpson. 2003. "Reconstructing the local state: The role of external constituencies in building urban tourism." The American Behavioral Scientist 46 (8):1056-1069.
Rae, Douglas W. 2003. City: Urbanism and Its End. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press. [EBooks]