PADM/530 PADM530 PADM 530 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION

PADM 530 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION

Discussion Board Forum 1

In reviewing this module/week's question, incorporate your understanding of economic development. Also consider any experiences and what you have observed in your community.

Select an economic development project in your community. The project must have been implemented and completed within the past 10 years. Provide background about the project and the intended economic benefits. In presenting your overview of the project, compare the project's development to the six phases of planning as presented in the Blakely and Leigh text. Did your community economic development project experience the same phases? Discuss. Also, outline the different approaches to community sustainability. What elements of the different approaches exist in your community’s project?

Discussion Board Forum Instructions

You will participate in 3 Discussion Board Forums.

Responding to a classmate’s post requires both the addition of new ideas and analysis. A particular point made by the classmate must be addressed and built upon by your analysis in order to move the conversation forward. Thus, the response post is a rigorous assignment that requires you to build upon initial posts to develop deeper and more thorough discussion of the ideas introduced in the initial posts. As such, reply posts that merely affirm, restate or unprofessionally quarrel with the previous post(s) and fail to make a valuable, substantive contribution to the discussion will receive appropriate point deductions.

This course utilizes the Post-First feature in all Discussion Board Forums with the exception of Forum 2. This means you will only be able to read and interact with your classmates’ threads after you have submitted your thread in response to the provided prompt. For additional information on Post-First, click here for a tutorial.

You must post your thread of 600 words or more by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned module/week. Then, you must reply to at least 2 peers’ threads in 200 words or more by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the same module/week.