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City Of Concord Complete Streets Plan Data, William Riggs

William W. Riggs

Bicycle & pedestrian volume data from May 7 & 8, 2014 gathered as a part of by CalPoly San Luis Obispo students. data gathering and analysis for the City of Concord Streetscape Assessment. A data summary map is available on Google at: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zUgcypEGSusE.kTpGu2CWK_OE.

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The Role Of Career Services In Facilitating Local Economic Growth - Opening Doors To Students Understanding Of Local Opportunities, Jennifer Massey, Yolande Chan, Sean Field

Jennifer Massey

This study discusses opportunities for municipal governments and university administration to work together to support local economic development in mid-sized university cities. It identifies the largely-neglected, but valuable, labour market that literally surrounds the campus in these cities, as places of opportunity. The paper suggests that the university campus provides a place in which effort to retain creative workers can emerge in cities that typically struggle to attract this workforce. It highlights an important role for Career Services in supporting local economic developmnet by opening doors to students' understanding of local opportunities. The empirical data presented in this paper was …

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