城市规划硕士-地方和区域经济发展

城市规划硕士（MUP）计划通过为学生提供深厚的知识基础和先进的技能与技巧，帮助学生成为规划专业的实践者和领导者。该程序还可以构成博士学位的基础。在经济发展领域的专业人员设计和实施旨在增强城市和地区短期和长期经济绩效和繁荣的战略。他们致力于解决当地和地区经济困境，失业和贫困的问题，并通过可行的当地经济运作来确保有足够的公共部门收入来资助社区服务，例如学校，道路，公园，公共安全和经济适用房。在美国，当地经济发展的早期方法强调了一种助推主义，即向公司，潜在投资者，游客和居民迁移的社区营销和销售。现代方法的助推器
The Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program prepares students to become practitioners and leaders in the planning profession by providing students with a deep intellectual grounding and advanced skills and techniques. The program can also form the basis for the Ph.D. in planning or advanced research positions.Professionals in the field of economic development design and implement strategies aimed at strengthening the short- and long-run economic performance and prosperity of cities and regions. They work to redress problems of local and regional economic distress, unemployment, and poverty, as well as to ensure--through the workings of a viable local economy--sufficient public sector revenues to finance community services such as schools, roads, parks, public safety and affordable housing. Early approaches to local economic development in the United States emphasized a kind of boosterism, the marketing and sale of the community to relocating firms, potential investors, tourists and residents. Modern versions of the booster approach join active place marketing campaigns with the use of financial inducements to attract relocating firms. The use of business location incentives (tax breaks, cash grants, etc.) by cities and states, while very common, is highly controversial. It is the focus of much academic research as well as policy debate.