ECON 444 – Urban Economics

Description

This course is about the economics of cities and related problem including logistics, supply chain, housing, and sustainability. At CMSE, the code of this course is ECON 444. The course is taught in English.

Cities As Engines Of Economic Growth by the World Bank Institute

Syllabus

1. Introduction
   – Prezi presentation
   
2. Cities and Economics
   – Geography and Development (2001) Journal of Economics and Geography 1, pp.81-105.
   – Prezi presentation
   
3. Urban structure
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRoc7_jVdo
4. Land uses
5. Public and private goods
6. Urban Logistics (Mid term)
7. Urban Tourism
8. Urban Happiness
9. Green Cities
   
10. Cities in 2020: Creative City
    
11. Urban Planning

Textbooks

• Lectures on Urban Economics, by Jan K. Brueckner, The MIT Press
  
  
• Development, Geography, And Economic Theory, By Paul Krugman, The MIT Press
  

• The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning
  Edited by Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap
  

• Urban and Spatial Economics HS12, ETH Zurich
• Econ Network’s A list of Books on Regional and Urban Economics

Reports

• Sustainable Urban Transports in Asia (Main Report), World Resources Institute (WRI)

Activities

• Visiting Chiang Mai TCDC (15 or 16 June 2013 TBC)
  
• An exhibition on “Chiang Mai Revisit” at TCDC (Brochure)

Software

Students will be taught how to analyse urban economic problem with Spatial Econometrics technique using a free and open-source software, R.

• Spatial Econometrics website
• Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R book is one of the textbooks used in the course.

Another resource for spatial analysis for urban economics with R is also provided by CSIRO’s

Analysing spatial point patterns in ‘R’ with a handbook in pdf format.

Useful links

• Office of Public Work and Town & Country Planning, Chiang Mai (สนง. โยธาธิการและผังเมือง จังหวัดเชียงใหม่)
• Building Control and City Planning Section,  Chiang Mai Municipality
  ส่วนควบคุมอาคารและผังเมือง สำนักการช่าง, เทศบาลนครเชียงใหม่
• Chiang Mai “Capital of the North” in Skyyscrapercity (Webboard on the urban development in Chiang Mai)
  
• Sustainable Urban Transport Project
• Pattaya Comprehensive Plan
• Public Transportation Research in Thailand especially in Chiang Mai, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University
  งานวิจัยเกี่ยวกับระบบขนส่งสาธารณะ รวบรวมโดย สถาบันวิจัยสังคม มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่

News

• เมกะโปรเจ็กต์รัฐถาโถมเชียงใหม่ สนามบิน2-ไฮสปีดเทรน-เมืองแฝด-เชียงใหม่อาย (ประชาชาติ ธุรกิจ)

Bedtime readings

• Up up up, New York Times discussing Glaeser‘s book “Triumph of the cities”
  
  
• Future of cities Forum by The Guardian (UK)
• Chiang Mai Creative City
• Download Thailand Official City/Provincial Maps