Abstract
While interest in economic development is growing and increasingly urgent, relatively little conceptual or empirical research has been conducted on the subject of area marketing. Generally, area marketers have adapted techniques from the industrial location schools of economic geography, without sharing the purpose or assumptions upon which these techniques are based. This article develops a framework for analytic approaches to area marketing planning, based on a review of existing and potential techniques.
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