DEV 573 - Dynamics of Urban Development |
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This course is designed to explore urban economics and urban problems. It covers market forces and its influences on economics of location choices and how location decisions of firms and households cause the development of cities ad also create urban problems . It also studies the urbanization and its relationship with economic growth, contribution of informal sector to economy. It studies the various issues of urban problems such as poverty, land and housing issues especially for urban poor, transportation, employment, pollution, and other urban services. It also looks into the urban government, inadequacy of resources, the nature of expenditures, government transfers, and urban governance with equity. It further studies the issues of power-social, political and economic and urban order and sense of space for women, youth and children.
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[Credit Hours: 3] |
