Marshall A. Worden

Senior Officer for Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Associate Vice President for Economic Development

Adjunct Social Scientist, Geography & Regional Development

B.A. 1968, The George Washington University, Geography and Regional Science
M.A. 1971, The University of Chicago, Geography

Phone: (520) 621-4088
Fax: (520) 621-9007
E-mail: worden@u.arizona.edu

UA Tech Park
9040 South Rita Road, Suite 2200; or
207 Transition Building
1731 East Second Street
PO Box 210458
Tucson, AZ 85721

Curriculum Vitae

Research

While my principle activities at the University are administrative and institutional in nature, they have in remarkable ways grown out of my decades-long research enthusiasms. Those interests include community development and planning, regional economic development, enhancing regional economic health, the social and economic tensions of growth and development, and the infrastructural demands of population growth. Essentially all of my applied work focuses on Arizona and the position of the University in the local and regional economy. I am currently most deeply involved in the planning, creation, and development of the 65-acre UA Biosciences Park, with particular concern for how the park will integrate into the surrounding community and for land use composition within the park itself. I continue to provide leadership for the community, economic, and land use development of the 1,340-acre UA Tech Park. These institutional activities have meaning for me as concrete expressions of my applied research endeavors.

Current research activities include (1) policy formulation and planning for the physical infrastructure and land requirements to accommodate Arizona's growth through 2030, (2) regional mobility in the Tucson metropolitan area, (3) residential and commercial land use development in the Tucson region, and (4) Arizona's global and competitive trade position.

Project Involvement

• Metropolitan Tucson Land Use Study
• Completion and publication of the monograph Arizona as a Border State-Competing in the Global Economy
• Co-authoring and editing of forthcoming monograph Growth and Development in Arizona: Environment, Infrastructure and People
• Service on the Technical Management Committee of the Regional Transportation Authority