arthur的这本书是城市经济学不错的入门读物，2003年第五版发行，但内容与第四版变化不大，以下给出国外以此书为主要教材所开始城市经济学的课程安排：

Reading: The readings for the course have been assembled in a booklet sold by the campus bookstore. The schedule below lists the readings for each lecture period.

Exams: There will be a midterm exam on Wednesday, November 8, and a final from noon to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, December 13. The midterm will consist of two essay questions, and the final with consist of three essay questions.

Paper: Each student is required to write a paper about a neighborhood he or she selects. The paper will use data from the 2000 Census to describe residents of that neighborhood. The paper cannot exceed 15 double-spaced pages and is due the last day of class, December 6. More details about the paper will be provided in lecture on Wednesday, October 4.

Grading: The midterm, final, and paper will each receive a letter grade (A, A-, B+ and son on). The grade points for each letter grade with then be averaged with the following weights: midterm 20%, final 40%, and paper 40%. The course grade will be determined by this weighted average.

Schedule:

October 2, Monday,

Introduction

October 4, Wednesday

Census Definitions, Project Description, and an Introduction to LA

Arthur O’Sullivan, Urban Economics, 5^th Edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2003, pp 5-13 , “What is Urban?”

October 9, Monday

Why Do Cities Exist?

Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, Random House, 1969, Chapter 4,

pp 122-144, “How Cities Start Growing”

October 11, Wednesday

Limits to City Size

Carey McWilliams, Southern California: An Island on the Land, 1946, Chapter VII, pp 113-137 ,“Years of the Boom.”

Henry George, Progress and Poverty, The Modern Library, 1889

“How the Book Came to be Written,”

“The Problem,” pp 3 -13

October 16, Monday

Urban Growth and Land Values

Henry George, Progress and Poverty, The Modern Library, 1889

“The Problem Solved,” pp 263-296

“The True Remedy,” 328-330

“Application of the Remedy,” pp 397-421

October 18, Wednesday

Land Value and Building Heights. Renaissance in LA.

Jill Leovy, “Rampart’s Redemption Rooted in Complex Forces,” Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2006.

David Pierson, “A Community’s Ethnic Tradition in Transition,” Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2006

October 23, Monday

Residential Density. Tensions on Skid Row

Arthur O’Sullivan, Urban Economics, 5^th Edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2003, pp 177-183., “Residential Land Use”

Carla Rivera, “Ambush on the Path to Recovery,” Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2006.

Carla Mia DiMassa and Richard Winton, “LAPD’s Crime Offensive on Skid Row Is Slipping,” Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2006.

Tom Slater, “The Downside of Upscale,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2006

October 25, Wednesday

Income and Residential Location

Stephen F. LeRoy and Jon Sonstelie, “Paradise Lost and Regained: Transportation Innovation, Income, and Residential Location,” Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 13, 1983, pp 67-89.

October 30, Monday

Urban Subcenters

Genevieve Giuliano and Kenneth A. Small, “Subcenters in the Los Angeles region,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 21, 1991, pp. 163-182.

November 1, Wednesday

Huell Howser, “Union Bank”

November 6, Monday

Guest Lecture: Jeff Adkison and Rob McRitchie, Heisman Properties, “Creating New Urban Living in Historical Neighborhoods.”

November 8, Wednesday

Midterm

November 13, Monday

Highway Congestion

Anthony Downs, Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion, Brooking Institute, Washington, D.C., 2004, Chapter 10, “Peak-Hour and Other Road Pricing,” and Appendix B.

November 15, Wednesday

California’s Urban Transportation Problem

Tracy Gordon and co-authors, Fiscal Realities, Public Policy Institute of California, forthcoming, 2007, Chapter 8, “Transportation.”

November 20, Monday

Racial Segregation and Unemployment

Steven Rafael, "The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis and Black Youth Joblessness: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area," Journal of Urban Economics 43 (1998), pp. 79-111.

November 22, Wednesday

No Class Today

November 27, Wednesday

The Market for School Quality

William A. Fischel, The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies, Harvard University Press, 2001, Chapter 1, “An Asset Market Approach to Local Government,” pp 1 – 18

November 29, Wednesday

Financing California’s Public Schools

Jon Sonstelie, Eric Brunner, and Kenneth Ardon, For Better or For Worse? School Finance Reform in California, Public Policy Institute of California, 2000, Chapters 1, 2, and 3. pp 1- 65.

December 4, Monday

Renting versus Owning

Arthur O’Sullivan, Urban Economics, 5^th Edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2003, “Taxes and Housing,” pp 452-456.

December 6, Wednesday

Is There a Housing Price Bubble?

Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai, "Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals and Misperceptions," Journal of Economic Perspectives 19 (2005), pages 67-92.

已经下了

谢谢