ECON 8300 - Urban Economics

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ECON 8080 or Econ 3910.
Description
This course examines the underlying causes of urban economic problems and evaluates alternative public policies for dealing with specific problems including congestion, discrimination, poverty, affordable housing, and central city decay. Emphasis is placed on the spatial characteristics of the urban economy as well as on market failures arising from the presence of externalities.