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1 CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC Course Title: UNIVERSITY, POMONA Date of Preparation: May 2009 Prepared by: Anne Bresnock COURSE OUTLINE I. Catalog Description (4) Analysis of the distribution and stability of income in urban areas; economic development of California cities; physical distribution and urban transportation problems. 4 seminars. Prerequisites: EC 20l or EC 202. II. Required Background or Experience EC 201 or EC 202. III. Expected Outcomes Students in will: a) analyze numerous urban economic problems, b) identify and summarize problems of city and regional governments, c) suggest solutions to some current economic problems, d) develop economic analytical tools to formulate and evaluate urban economic problems across disciplines, ie. urban planning. IV. Text and Readings Texts: Bluestone, B., M.H. Stevenson, and R. Williams The Urban Experience (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008). Flavin, C. State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future (Washington, D.C. Worldwatch Institute, 2007). Sullivan, A.M. Urban Economics, 7th Ed. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009). U. N. Habitat The State of the World s Cities 2008/09 (Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008).

2 Page 2 Readings: Abrahamson, M. Global Cities (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004). Bogart, W. T. The Economics of Cities and Suburbs (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice- Hall Inc., 1998). Bruegmann, R. Sprawl: A Compact History (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2005). Cheshire, P.C. and E. S. Mills, Eds. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 3, Applied Urban Economics (New York, NY: North-Holland, 1999). Dear, M. J., E. H. Shockman and G. Hise, Eds. Rethinking Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996). DiPasquale, D. and W. C. Wheaton Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996). Downs, A. New Visions for Metropolitan America (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1994). Fogelson, R. M. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suberbia, (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2005). Fogelson, R. M. Downtown: Its Rist and Fall, (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2001). Fulton, W. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Henderson, V. and J. F. Thisse, Eds. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 4, Cities and Geography, (New York, NY: North-Holland, 2004). Hise, G. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). Jacobs, J. Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (New York, NY: Random House, 1984). Jacobs, J. The Economy of Cities (New York, NY: Random House, 1969). Jacobs, J. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1992).

3 Page 3 Levine, J. Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land-Use (Washington, D.C. Resources for the Future, 2006). Kunstler, J. Home from Nowhere (New York: Touchstone, 1996). McCann, P. Urban and Regional Economics (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001). McDonald, J. F. Fundamentals of Urban Economics (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997). Mills, E. S., Ed. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 2 (New York, NY: North-Holland, 1987). Mills, E. S. and B.W. Hamilton Urban Economics, 5th Edition (New York: Harper Collins, 1994). Mumford, L. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1961). Newman, P. and J. Kenworthy Sustainability and Cities: Dependence (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1999). Overcoming Automobile Nijkamp, P. Ed. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 1, Regional Economics (New York, NY: North-Holland, 1986). Perloff, H. S., Ed. The Quality of the Urban Environment (Baltimore, MD: Resources for the Future, 1969). Peterson, P. E., Ed. The New Urban Reality (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1985). Portney, K. E. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003). Rae, D. W. City: Urbanism and Its End(New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2003). Rusk, D. Cities without Suburbs: A Census 2000 Update. 3rd Ed. (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003).

4 Page 4 Satterthwaite, D., Ed. The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities (Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2004). Tung, A. M. Preserving the World s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis (New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2001). References: American Economic Review Journal of Economic Inquiry Journal of Urban Economics Land Economics Regional Science and Urban Economics Regional Studies Review of Regional Studies Urban Studies V. Minimum Student Materials Textbooks, notebooks, and access to library reference materials. VI. Minimum College Facilities Classroom for seminar discussions equipped with audio-visual equipment and computer access. VII. Course Outline A. Introduction 1. What is Urban Economics? 2. What is a City? 3. Survey of the Literature in Urban Economics B. Historical Development of Cities and Urban Places 1. European Development 2. Asian Development 3. African and Middle-Eastern Development Page 5

5 4. Development of U. S. Urban Places and Cities C. Urban Area Impacts on Various Cultures 1. Asian Communities 2. Latinos and Barrios 3. Impacts of Ghettos on Cultures 4. Impacts of Urbanization on Native American Cultures D. Impacts of Various Cultures on Urban Areas 1. Concept of Barrios and Its Impact on Urban Areas 2. Some Ghettos Represent Cultures Within Cultures 3. Urban Shape Influenced by Various Cultures in an Area E. An Economic View of the Emergence and Growth of Cities 1. Markets in a Spatial Setting 2. Cities in a Spatial Setting 3. The Economics of City Size F. Inside a City's Economy 1. The Urban Land Market 2. The Housing Market: A Local Perspective 3. The Housing Market: A National Perspective 4. The Urban Transportation Market G. When a City Separates Into Two Economies: Nonwhite and White Page 6 1. Production and Income in the Ghetto

6 2. Economics of Residential Segregation By Race H. The Urban Public Sector 1. Urban Public Finance I. Where Do We Go From Here? VIII. Instructional Methods There are five methods of instruction: a) assigned reading materials, b) presentation of lecture, audio-visual and written material by the professor, c) demonstration of how to prepare a written report concerning urban economics to guide students in preparing their term reports, d) student development of answers to policy issues in two written, take-home examinations, and e) student leadership and participation in seminar discussions on selected topics. IX. Evaluation of Outcomes There are three methods of evaluation: a) two take-home written examinations concerning the development of urban policy issues to be no more than 10 pages in length, b) a term paper on an urban economic problem to be no more than 15 pages in length, and c) evaluation of contributions to the seminar.

CRP 336: REGIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING FOUNDATIONS

Fall 2003 CRP 336: REGIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING FOUNDATIONS READING Course Reader Table of Contents (DRAFT, 6-5-03) PAGE I. THE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING Smith, Z. (1999). Ecosystem interdependence.