URBP 556. Urban Economy: A Spatial Perspective.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Economic functions played by cities; economic processes governing city formation, city growth, and the internal spatial organization of cities. Describing and understanding how cities can be interpreted as economic phenomena. Economic origins of cities, the industrial revolution, city systems and networks, the role of mobility and telecommunications, innovation and creativity as urban phenomena, the internal spatial logic of metropolitan areas.