Urban Economics

PREREQUISITES: (ECON-UA 0001 OR ECON-UA 9001 OR ECON-UB 11 OR ECI-UF 1001 OR AP Macroeconomics with score of 4 or 5) AND (ECON-UA 0002 OR ECON-UA 9002 OR ECON-UB 1 OR ECI-UF 1002 OR ECII-UF 9102 OR ECON-SHU 2 OR ECON-SHU 3 OR AP Microeconomics with score of 4 or 5). ALL WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF C.

The city as an economic organization. Urbanization trends, functional specialization, and the nature of growth within the city; organization of economic activity within the city and its outlying areas, the organization of the labor market, and problems of urban poverty; the urban public economy; housing and land-use problems; transportation problems; and special problems within the public sector.