ECC3770

Regional and urban studies

Not offered in 1999

6 points · Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week · First or second semester · Clayton · Prerequisite: ECC2000 or equivalent

Objectives On completion of this subject students should be able to recognise and understand how the spatial and locational characteristics of economic systems shape, and are shaped by, basic microeconomic principles and relationships, including market operations; be able to expand the application of microeconomics to a wide variety of issues that arise intrinsically in regional and urban contexts; evaluate critically regional and urban policies.

Synopsis Industrial location; spatial pricing and markets; locational competition, interregional trade; allocation of land, agglomeration economies and diseconomies; industrial structure, economic base and regional development; urban spatial structure; and contemporary urban and regional issues, in particular urban public transport, congestion, and the role of government in a spatial context.

Assessment Mid-semester quiz: 30% · Tutorial exercises: 20% · Examination (2 hours): 50%

Prescribed texts

Economic Planning Advisory Council Urban and regional trends and issues AGPS, 1991
Hoover E M and Giarratani F An introduction to regional economics 3rd edn, Knopf, 1984

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