COURSE #:  REAL 443

Winter 2008

SECTION:  31

COURSE NAME: Urban Economic Development and RE Market Analysis

INSTRUCTOR:   Rick Mattoon

CASEPACK  (YES) :

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Yes.

1.  Students should read the Economist survey and the CEO's for Cities piece for discussion during the first class.

2. TEXT - REQUIRED

AUTHORS: Robert Weissbourd and Christopher Berry                                    PUBLISHER:  CEO’s for Cities     

TITLE: The Changing Dynamics of Urban America                                                    ED./DATE:  March, 2004

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED:

AUTHOR: Richard Florida

PUBLISHER: Basic Books, paperback

TITLE: “The Rise of the Creative Class”

ED./DATE: edition 2004

4.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED

AUTHOR: J. Vernon Henderson,

PUBLISHER: Oxford Press

TITLE:  “Urban Development, Theory Fact an Illusion”

ED./DATE: 1988

5.  TEXT – OPTIONAL

AUTHOR: Denise Di Pasquale and William Wheaton,

PUBLISHER  Prentice Hall

TITLE  “Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets”,  Prentice Hall,

ED DATE 1996

6.  TEXT - REQUIRED

AUTHOR: Andrienne Schmitz and Deborah Brett

PUBLISHER Urban Land Institute,

TITLE  “Real Estate Market Analysis: A Case Study Approach”

ED. DATE  2001

7. TEXT - REQUIRED

AUTHORS: Robert Weissbourd and Christopher Berry

PUBLISHER:  CEO’s for Cities

TITLE: Grads and Fads: The Dynamics of Human Capital Location

ED./DATE: October, 2005