About the Author

J. M. Pogodzinski is a professor of economics at San Jose State University and also teaches at City College of San Francisco. Pogodzinski  served as a consultant to the U.S. Treasury Department on estimating tax revenues in developing countries and to the General Accountability Office (formerly the General Accounting Office) on the impact of federal programs on urban sprawl.
Richard M. Kos, AICP, is a certified urban planner specializing in the use of GIS to study land use change, alternatives to suburban sprawl, and public transportation. Kos teaches graduate-level courses in community-directed urban planning and GIS at San Jose State University in California and GIS workshops at City College of San Francisco.
The book Economic Development and GIS shows why geographic information system (GIS) software is an essential tool for economic development planning and analysis. The book describes policy problems in economic development then presents methods and techniques to solve them with GIS. Economic Development and GIS uses examples from Esri Business Analyst™ and ArcGIS software to explain the value of GIS in economic development decision making.