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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

PAD 5805: Economic Development and Urban Revitalization [Section R8X; Class Number: 17527]

Spring 2012 Syllabus Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~ganapati

Instructor Sukumar Ganapati Office PCA 363B, University Park Campus Telephone (305) 348-6275 Email [email protected] Office hours Thursday: 3.30 pm to 4.45 pm [or by appointment].

Class hours Friday, 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm; Saturday, 9.30 am to 1.30 pm Location Pines campus

Catalog description This course is an interdisciplinary examination of research and practice in contemporary economic development, with emphasis on successful implementation in a variety of settings.

Course Objectives The course will deal with key economic development concepts, theories and models. We will particularly explore the public administrator’s role in implementing key economic development tools and techniques for rejuvenating urban distressed areas. We will pay more attention to South Florida, but we will do so in the broader context of state, national, and global forces.

Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this course.

Educational Learning Outcomes Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:  Articulate the key economic development theories  Apply an economic development tool in a given context  Identify the role of the public administrator in rejuvenating an area

Course Design The course is divided into three parts. The first part will deal with the local economic development concepts, tools, and techniques. This will lay the theoretical foundation of the course. The second part will deal with the policy and the institutional context of local economic development. This will focus on the local competitiveness in the broader regulatory and global context. The third part will deal with the different components of implementing economic development. This part will be flexible depending on students’ interests. Tentative areas of coverage include: environment, technology, and housing. The course will be taught as a seminar. Students will need to be well-prepared with the assigned readings to effectively engage in classroom discussions.

Course Requirements There will be one test, one term paper, and a project. All exercises are designed to maximize the potential to achieve the educational learning outcomes indicated before. Broadly, the test will deal with the issues covered in class. More details about the test’s coverage will be given in class at appropriate times. The term paper will be an article covering an aspect of economic development in depth. Students will need to present the abstract of the term paper in class on the suitable date allocated to them. The project will be related to the revitalization of Liberty City. The project will be in groups of 2 to 3 students. The final product will be a dashboard format report. The term paper (as well as any essay portion of tests) needs to be uploaded to Turnitin.com. Please do note the statement on plagiarism and academic misconduct at the end of this syllabus. This is taken very seriously.

Class attendance is important. Less than 50 percent attendance will be an automatic F grade.

Exercise schedule and weightage Test 1 04/13/12 30 points Liberty City Project 04/28/12 30 points Term Paper 04/29/12 30 points Class attendance & participation 10 points

Total 100 points

GRADE TOTAL POINTS A 93-100 A- 88-92 B+ 83-87 B 78-82 B- 73-77 C+ 68-72 C 63-67 C- 58-62 D+ 53-57 D 48-52 D- 43-47 F < 43

Text The following book is required for the course:  Edward J. Blakely and Nancy Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development, 4th Edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009.

Selected additional readings from other sources will also be used, as noted in the schedule. Schedule of Readings

PART 1: BASIC CONCEPTS AND TOOLS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

3/30/2012 Introduction: The Face of the New Urban Economy

Readings:  Blakely and Leigh, Ch 3 (Concepts and Theory of Local Economic Development)  Gordon, Gerald L. 2009. “Local Economic Recovery: Growth after the Fall” (Case studies), In The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street America. CRC Press. [In class reading]  Jacobs, Jane. 1969. “How Cities Start Growing”, In The Economy of Cities. Random House. [In class reading]

Introduction to Term Paper + Project

3/31/2012 The National and Local context of ED Strategies Readings:  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 2. (The Influence of National and State Policies on Local Economic Development)  Blakely and Leigh, Ch 7 (Local Economic Development Strategy)  Garvin, Alexander (1996) “Ingredients of Success” in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t. McGraw Hill [In class reading]

Take Home Mid term given

3/06/2012 Economic Development Tools and Techniques

Readings:  Blakely and Leigh, Ch 6 (Introduction to Analytical Methods for Local Economic Development Planning)  Miami-Dade Beacon Council. 2011. One Community One Goal: A targeted community study for Miami Dade County (Report 1: Community Assessment). Online at http://www.beaconcouncil.com/webdocs/Foundation/OneCommunityOneGoalCompetitiveAssessment.pdf [In class reading] PART 2: STRATEGIES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

3/07/2012 Strategies for Urban Distress/ Revitalization/ Decay Readings:  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 11 (Community Economic Development)  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 12 (Building the Implementation Plan)  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 13 (Institutional Approaches to Local Economic Development)  Halpern, Sue. 2009. Mayor of Rust. New York Times (11 Feb 2011). Online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/magazine/13Fetterman-t.html [In class reading] (Also: A Tale of One City case study, http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/a-tale-of-one-city- examining-urban-decay-and-renewal)

One page abstract of Term Paper topic due 4/13/2012 Strategies for Business/ Industrial Development Readings:  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 8 (Locality Development)  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 9 (Business Development)  Blakely and Leigh, Ch. 10 (Human Resource Development)  Mayer, H. (2009). Bootstrapping high-tech: Evidence from Three Emerging High Technology Metropolitan Areas. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution. Online at: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2009/06_metro_hightech_mayer/06_metro_hightech_mayer .pdf [In class reading]

Take Home Mid term Due

PART 3: COMPONENTS OF IMPLEMENTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 4/14/2012 Implementing ED: Housing Development Readings:  Landis, John D. & Kirk McClure. (2010). Rethinking Federal Housing Policy. Journal of the American Planning Association, 76(3), 319 – 348. Online at: http://www.informaworld.com.ezproxy.fiu.edu/smpp/content~db=all~content=a922820485  Blair and Carroll, Ch. 9 (Land Use)  Blair and Carroll, Ch. 10 (Housing and Neighborhood Development)

Student paper presentations related to this issue 4/20/2012 Implementing ED: Green Development Readings:  Chapple, K., et al. (2011) Innovation in the Green Economy: An Extension of the Regional Innovation System Model? Economic Development Quarterly 25(1), 5-25. Online at: http://edq.sagepub.com.ezproxy.fiu.edu/content/25/1/5.abstract  Richard C. Hula and Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo. (2010). Cleaning Up the Mess: Redevelopment of Urban Brownfields. Economic Development Quarterly 24(3), 276-287. Online at: http://edq.sagepub.com.ezproxy.fiu.edu/content/24/3/276.short  U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Online at: http://GlobalChange.gov.

Student paper presentations related to this issue [Project Dashboard Draft due] 4/21/2012 Implementing ED: High Technology Development Readings:  Mayer, Heike. (2010). Catching Up: The Role of State Science and Technology Policy in Open Innovation. Economic Development Quarterly, 24(3), 195-209. Online at: http://edq.sagepub.com.ezproxy.fiu.edu/content/24/3/195.full.pdf+html  Florida, Richard (2002) “Transformation of Everyday Life” and “Creative Economy” in The Rise of the Creative Class  Kolko, Jed. (2010). Does Broadband Boost Local Economic Development? Public Policy Institute of California Working Paper. Online at: http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_110JKR.pdf.

Student paper presentations related to this issue 4/27/2012 CODA: The Local Economy in the Global Context  Friedman, Thomas (2007), Ch. 1 (While I was sleeping), In The World Is Flat 3.0. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. Excerpt at: http://us.macmillan.com/BookCustomPage.aspx?isbn=9780374292782&m_type=1  Feiock, Richard C., M. Jae Moon, Hyung Jun Park. (2008). Is the World “Flat” or “Spiky”? Rethinking the Governance Implications of Globalization for Economic Development. Public Administration Review, 68(1), 24-35. Online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00832_2.x/pdf  Florida, Richard. (2010). Chapter 1, The Great Reset. New York: HarperCollins. Online at: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Great-Reset/Richard-Florida/e/9780061937194#EXC

4/28/2012 Project presentations 4/29/2012 Final paper due by midnight through Turnitin.com [ABSOLUTELY NO EXTENSIONS] Statement on plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of another person's words, ideas, and creative work in general as one's own. This misrepresentation is a breach of ethics that seriously compromises a person’s reputation. Professional careers have been ruined by revelations of plagiarism. To avoid plagiarism, researchers and professionals in public, private, or nonprofit organizations must scrupulously give credit whenever they use another person’s idea, opinion, theory, written or spoken words, as well as any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge. The following rules should be observed to make sure that the distinction between one's own words, ideas or work, and those of others is justly maintained.

1. Put in quotations everything that comes directly from the text of another’s work, especially when taking notes.

2. Alternatively, you can paraphrase another person’s work, but be sure you are not just rearranging or replacing a few words. A good strategy is to (1) read over what you want to paraphrase carefully, (2) cover up the text with your hand, (3) write out the idea in your own words without peeking, and (4) check your paraphrase against the original text to be sure you have not accidentally used the same phrases or words, and that the information is accurate.

3. Whether you quote, paraphrase or otherwise borrow another’s work, always cite or indicate the source of the information, and provide references following one of the many accepted styles or formats.

4. Common knowledge such as George Washington’s date of birth or the meaning of OLS regression need not be quoted, cited, or referenced. However, borrowing another’s original or creative presentation of common knowledge should follow the abovementioned rules. When in doubt, follow the rules.

Of course, submitting a paper that is completely the work of another person is plagiarism in its most extreme form. A student who plagiarizes all or part of an assignment can expect severe cumulative penalties, ranging from failure in the course to expulsion from the university, with an annotation of the sanction received on the student’s transcript.

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