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A really useful book for practicing planners and planning students....provides a comprehensive background to the concepts underlying forecasting methods in the population and economic fields and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses. (Ian Masser )
Lends itself very well to use in a graduate or an advanced undergraduate planning methods course (Apa Journal )
Written so that one can work through it with or without classroom guidance and come away with a solid background in the mechanics, and some of the subtleties, of the methods. It will make learning, reviewing, and teaching important techniques a much more manageable task. (Journal Of The American Planning Association )
What Klosterman has done is to write a book which assumes the reader to have only rudimentary mathematical skill but which develops this skill to a level where it is of practical usefulness. This book is thus uniquely tailored to the needs of planning students and deserves to become a standard text. (Michael Batty )
Lends itself very well to use in a graduate or an advanced undergraduate planning methods course (Apa Journal )
Written so that one can work through it with or without classroom guidance and come away with a solid background in the mechanics, and some of the subtleties, of the methods. It will make learning, reviewing, and teaching important techniques a much more manageable task. (Journal Of The American Planning Association )
What Klosterman has done is to write a book which assumes the reader to have only rudimentary mathematical skill but which develops this skill to a level where it is of practical usefulness. This book is thus uniquely tailored to the needs of planning students and deserves to become a standard text. (Michael Batty )
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Richard Klosterman is professor in the department of geography and planning at the University of Akron.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Poorly written and not very comprehensive - stay away from this one,
By BlagoSucks "ReadAllAboutIt" (Springfield, Illinois) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Community Analysis and Planning Techniques (Paperback)
Richard Klosterman's Community Analysis and Planning Techniques is a poor example of how Professional Planners conduct analysis. Besides being overly wordy and perhaps never to the point, this book depicts quanitative analysis backwards. The combination of Statistical methods, Data processing, Urban economics gets lost in translation and is dated. Stay away from this book unless you are a helpless victim to being taught by Prof. Klosterman - I would imagine this is required material for his classes; and if that is the reason why you need to purchase this book, I feel sorry for you.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Resource For Projecting Population And Economy,
By David Ambrose "David" (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Community Analysis and Planning Techniques (Paperback)
This is a one-stop-shop how-to for projecting population and employment figures, as well as developing location quotients. This is a great resource for city planners and those interested in detailed location analysis. It explains how population and employment projections are made as well as what methods are appropriate and when they should be used, so as not to misrepresent data. Though some of the text itself may be a bit technical from time to time, the mathematics are sound and chart examples are very easy to understand. The population projections, cohort population projections, and employment projection techniques were very easy recreate on spreadsheets with own data. This is a useful reference for any planning office.
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No complaints. Got what I expected. It's so much cheaper to order my books online than buy them in the campus bookstore...
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