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, 5th 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, 5th 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, 5th 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.
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