Urban and Regional Economics

• Syllabus for Urban and Regional Economics ( ECON 4500-Spring 2009 )
• The Web Book of Regional Science.
• MTSU Office of Judicial Affairs and Mediation Services ; "Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It"

GIS data and software

• ArcGIS online help.
• Open-source GIS: GRASS (sophisticated package, used for spatial analysis)
• Open-source GIS: Quantum GIS (user-friendly, good for map display)
• Tennessee GIS data collection
• US data from nationalatlas.gov
• US Census 2000 TIGER/Line data from ESRI
• USGS—many links to free data

Assignments

• Population I ArcGIS assignment
• Population II ArcGIS assignment
• Housing I ArcGIS assignment
• Housing II ArcGIS assignment
• Spatial Division of Labor I ArcGIS assignment
• Spatial Division of Labor II ArcGIS assignment
• Spatial Division of Labor III ArcGIS assignment

Miscellaneous

• Good place to start when looking for data on U.S. local economies .
• Housing-related links
• The Diffusion of Wal-Mart
• The War on Drugs
• Areas to worry about if sea levels rise
• Take a Look: List of U.S. counties, sorted from highest per capita income to lowest.

Dividing the Land into Regions

• One way to divide Tennessee into biogeographic regions .
• The BEA's division of the U.S. into 174 Economic Areas .
• The Core, Inner Ring, and Outer Ring of the Nashville Economic Area .
• The Department of Transportation divides the U.S. into transportation regions .
• Historical emergence of U.S. administrative land boundaries