Urban Economics – Education Exchange

Topics:

1. Introduction: Ethics, Goals, and Mainstream Axioms of Urban Economics
2. Developing a Basic Understanding of the Urbanization Process
3. Firm Location Decisions
4. Urban Employment, Per-capita Income Growth, and Business Promotion
5. Urban Population Size and Growth (Rural-Urban and Urban-Urban Migration Models)
6. Urban Spatial Structure, Size, and Growth: The [Basic] Monocentric City Model
7. Modifications and Extensions of the Monocentric City Model
8. Urban Sprawl, Its Social/Environmental Impacts, and the Spatial Growth Control Debate
9. Neighborhood Choice Models
10. Local Public Goods and the Tiebout Model
11. Housing Demand and Tenure Choice Models
12. Housing Policies (Subsidy and Rent-Control Analysis)
13. Traffic Congestion + Urban Transit Policies
14. Basic Urban Crime and Crime Minimization Models

Readings:

A. F. Ades and E. L. Glaeser, Trade and circuses: Explaining urban giants, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (1995), pp. 195{227.

A. Anas, R. Arnott, and K. A. Small, Urban spatial structure, Journal of Economic Literature, 36 (1998), pp. 1426-1464.

T. J. Bartik, Economic development strategies, Working Paper 95-33, W.E. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 1995.

J. K. Brueckner, The structure of urban equilibria: A unified treatment of the Muth-Mills model, in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, E. Mills, ed., vol. II, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1987.

C. Ding and X. Zhao, Urbanization in Japan, South Korea, and China, in The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, N. Brooks, K. Donaghy, and G.-J. Knapp, eds., vol. I, Oxford University Press, 2012.

E. L. Glaeser, Are cities dying?, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12 (1998), pp. 139-160.

P. Gordon and H. W. Richardson, Urban structure and economic growth, in The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, N. Brooks, K. Donaghy, and G.-J. Knapp, eds., vol. I, Oxford University Press, 2012.

M. E. Kahn, Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment, Brookings, Washington D.C., 2006.

P. McCann, The role of industrial clustering and increasing returns to scale in economic development and urban growth, in The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, N. Brooks, K. Donaghy, and G.-J. Knapp, eds., vol. I, Oxford University Press, 2012.

T. J. Nechyba and R. P. Walsh, Urban sprawl, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (2004), pp. 177-200.

W. E. Rees, Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out, Environment and Urbanization, 4 (1992), pp. 121-130.

J. M. Thomson, Reflections on the economics of traffic congestion, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 32 (1998), pp. 93-112.

C. M. Tiebout, A pure theory of local expenditures, The Journal of Political Economy, 64 (1956), pp. 416-424.