A review of the determinants of the location, size, growth, and form of urban areas. Study of the major issues of contemporary urban life: physical deterioration, growth of ghettos, congestion, pollution, transportation, and land use.
This course is an introduction to microeconomics: individual consumer and firm behavior, supply and demand, and the market determination of prices, production and income. We will analyze government policies of price controls, taxation, monopoly and antitrust laws, market failures and environmental policy.