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FACULTY & LABS
UIUC has a large number of faculty teaching and conducting research in areas directly or closely related to local and regional economic development. There are also several standing research laboratories and projects investigating economic development issues and developing new methodologies for understanding regional economic change and its impacts on other areas of planning and policy.
CLOSELY RELATED FACULTY, THEIR DEPARTMENTS & SPECIALITIES
Professor, Departments of Geography, Economics, and Urban and Regional Planning. Spatial data analysis and geographic information science with applications to regional economies. Director, Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL) and Senior Research Professor, REAL.
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Affordable housing, housing policy, housing finance, and issues of race and class in neighborhood change.
Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Regional economic modeling, globalization, comparative U.S.-European development, development theory, economic development policy. Director, European Union Center and Research Associate Professor, REAL.
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Public finance, public management practices, local economic development strategies and practices.
Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. State and local economic development policy, regional growth, industry cluster analysis, innovation, technology-related economic development. Co-PI, Regional Economics and Policy Program (REAP), coordinator, NEURUS Exchange Program, and Research Associate Professor, REAL.
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Community development, neighborhood planning, participatory approaches to community planning, diversity and the urban planning process, feminist analysis of the planning process, and local government responses to Pacific Rim immigration in the United States. Director, Summer Studio in Costa Rica.
Professor, Departments of Geography, Economics, and Urban and Regional Planning. Economic structure and structural change, regional econometric and input-output modeling, general equilibrium modeling, economic development policy. Director, Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL).
Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism. Sports economics, public economics, economics of education, economic impact of sports facilities.
Professor, Departments of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Urban and Regional Planning. Regional economics, rural policy and development, geographic control group methods for policy analysis, forecasting, applied analytical techniques. Co-PI, Regional Economics and Policy Program (REAP) and Senior Research Professor, REAL.
Endowed Professor of Urban and Regional Systems, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Transportation analysis, geographic information systems, urban and regional systems analysis, expert systems in planning, economic impacts of damages in transportation under unscheduled events, development of efficient real time traffic data, episodic and seasonal controls for transportation, and GIS standards. Director, Expert Planning Information Systems Laboratory (EPIL).
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Community development, access to housing and basic urban services by low-income groups and women, community-based strategies and mobilizations, non-governmental non-profit organizations and grassroots movements, processes of participatory community planning, comparative development.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Deputy City Manager for Development, City of Champaign. Applied local economic development, economic development policy, economic development finance.
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Issues of gender and color in international, national and local economic development.
RELATED STANDING RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INSTITUTES AND PROJECTS
Expert Planning Information Systems Laboratory (EPIL)
EPIL develops information technology tools and applies them in transportation and development planning, management, research and teaching. The laboratory's objectives are to provide decision-makers, planners, and the public with a scientific basis for transportation and land development planning, through the construction of planning frameworks and deep databases; to support the concept of open access to digital information on transportation, by developing and implementing Open GIS information technologies; and to develop public domain GIS software.
Land Use Evolution & Impact Assessment Model (LEAM)
LEAM is a process of modeling, visualization, and testing the impacts of land-use policy decisions. Through dynamic spatial modeling and Web-based interface, LEAM simulates land-use change across space and time, providing a basis for discussion and decision-making.
Regional Economics and Policy Program (REAP)
REAP is a three-year project (2005-2008) sponsored by the College of Agriculture to enhance campus research capacity, external funding competitiveness, and scholarly productivity on emerging regional economic and demographic policy issues. Its aim is to establish UIUC as a leading national think tank on 1) federal and state policies that affect regional economic competitiveness and welfare; and 2) the role of the policy and political process in shaping subnational economic policy choices.
Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL)
REAL's mission is to provide timely, high quality analytical economic information for a variety of uses such as public policy decision making by public sector agencies and for strategic marketing in the private sector. REAL's capabilities revolve around comprehensive state and metropolitan models that integrate econometric and input-output analysis to provide for both impact and forecasting analyses.
Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL)
The Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL) is a research unit devoted to the development, implementation and application of state-of-the-art methods of spatial analysis to policy issues in the economic, social and environmental sciences. Activities span the range from the creation of new methods for exploratory data analysis and spatial econometrics to the implementation of these techniques in the form of software tools. Applications deal with research questions in a range of fields, including environmental economics, criminology, public health, and other social and natural sciences.
OUTREACH LABORATORIES AND PROJECTS
Laboratory for Community and Economic Development (CED)
A University of Illinois Extension and Department of Community Development program that provides practical, research-based information and programs to assist the economic and community development activities of rural and urban areas throughout Illinois.