Our last meeting is today on campus. The plan is to finish lecture topic 13, “Congestion and urban transit.” The final topic is urban crime. In the second half of class, if there is time, we discuss the readings from Rees and Kahn.
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- I will send you the questions for the final exam by Friday. You will have two weeks to finish the exam. Due date will be Friday, December 9th by 20:00.
- Your second essay should be published on Project Pathumwan by Friday, December 2nd.
- Online comments for Project Pathumwan should be finished by Friday, 16th of December.
- Steven D. Levitt, “Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.18, No.1, Winter 2004, pp. 163-190(28)
- William W. Goldsmith, “The Drug War and Inner-city Neighborhoods,” Chapter 11 in The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning.
- Video: “The War on Our Citizens: Ex-Baltimore Cop Takes Jesse Ventura Inside the World of Police Corruption“
- Slides: “Social Issues: Urban Poverty and Crime“
- Street Design Taipei Buses 2019