香港大學 Urban Economics Course Lecture Notes
(All based on Urban Economics by Arthur O’ Sullivan,

Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets by Denise DiPasquale and William C. Wheaton)

Course Description

An introduction to the issues, problems, and policy relevance of urban and regional economics, thesubject matters of which are the location choices of households and firms, and how the two interact togive rise to the spatial and geographical structure of economic activities.Topics include how market forces give rise to the pattern of land use in cities, and how the patternchanges over time as the city grows, the sources and consequences of the concentration of economicactivities over space – agglomeration economies, the life-cycle of a city, and the future of cities amidstadvances in digital communications technology. While at times, we would take our theories tounderstand contemporary urban and regional economic issues, by and large, this course is a theory course;our primary interest is on what economic theory has to say about the location decisions of households andfirms.

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