Introduction to a set of tools that are widely used in professional planning practice. Topics include:

• Applied Demography: Descriptive analysis of populations, top-down and bottom-up population projections.
• Regional Economics: Income and product accounts, economic base multipliers, shift-share analysis, regional input-output analysis.
• Urban Applications of Economics: measuring inequality, gravity models, transportation analysis.
• Decision Analysis: Value tradeoffs, risk aversion, optimization, benefit-cost analysis, multi-criteria analysis.

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