Описание:The course "Urban Economics" focuses on a discussion of the most urgent issues in the rapidly expanding field of urban economics. The central concern of the course is to show cities as crucial and advanced components of the national and global economy, acting as engines of economic development and social changes.
The topics selected for the course give a good picture how modern urban economies face different challenges of sustainable development like environmental problems or creation of low-carbon economy. A problematic approach is a basic one for the analysis of these cities challenges.Themes of the course were also selected in such a way as to give understanding of a wide range of city’s management problems and peculiarities. Learning best managerial practices from cities all over the world illustrates possible solutions and their applicability in another urban economies. Through a series of real case studies, learrning tasks and calculating exercises the course stimulates crtical understanding of the economics governing urban development.
The course covers the following themes: Urban Economics Theories, City’s Functions, Modern Challenges of Large and Small Cities, Strategic Territorial Planning, Brending Cities (Marketing places), Factors of Cities Growth, Territorial Expansion of Cities, The Case of Moscow Expansion, Cities Ratings and Indexes, International Financial Centers, World Emerging Cities: Challenges and Trajectories.