Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners or Construction Scheduling

Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners: Fourth Edition

Author: Avrom Bendavid Val

This new edition updates and expands the author's classic work, which has become a standard for professionals and students of public administration, urban and regional planning, and regional economics. Bendavid-Val provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented book on the state of the art of regional and local economic planning, written in a straightforward style that requires no extensive background. Included are thorough discussions of planning methods, covering aggregate regional analysis, intraregional analysis, and project identification and evaluation, as well as approaches to development planning.

Table of Contents:

The Economic and Development Context
Regional Development in the National Context
Inside the Region
Project Interventions for Regional Development
Methods of Aggregate Regional Analysis
The Basic Statistical Compendium
Income Measures, Income and Product Accounts
Balance of Payments Statements, Linkages and Flows
Economy Composition Analysis
Economic Base Analysis
Input-Output Analysis
Aggregate Social Accounts: A Relational Review
Methods of Intraregional Analysis
Characteristics of Subareas and Urban Places
Intraregional Linkages and Flows
Intraregional Income and Employment Multiplication
Settlement System Analysis
Methods of Project Identification and Evaluation
Project Identification
Project Evaluation
Benefit-Cost Analysis
Approaches to Regional Development Planning
An Idealized Planning Model
Applied Regional Approaches
A General Framework for Regional Planning
Bibliography
Index

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Construction Scheduling: Principles and Practices

Author: Jay S Newitt

This book is a comprehensive, stand alone reference for project scheduling. It includes complete coverage of scheduling from the basics to advanced applications along with a detailed tutorial on the four most popular software programs—Primavera Project Planner (P3), SureTrak, P3e/c, and Microsoft Project. Having scheduling information and software instructions in one book obviates the need for two texts, and the exercises and examples in the scheduling portion are tied to the same exercises in the software portions.