POEC6371 - Urban, Rural and Regional Development

POEC 6371 Urban, Rural and Regional Development (3 semester hours) Analysis of factors that drive urban and rural change and shape geographic configurations of economic activity across regional landscapes. The course looks at spatial dimensions of production, consumption and distribution; job creation dynamics; globalization-induced economic restructuring; location behaviors of firms, workers and households; and influences of finance, transportation, infrastructure, water, land use and other public goods and services on the size and form of regional growth. Effects of science and technology, international trade, environment, energy, tax, labor and competition policies are assessed, as are public sector efforts to stimulate development through industrial targeting, work force training, tax and other incentives. (3-0) T