PLAN 532 Economics of Planning
Essential economic perspective on planning issues, such as land use and its impact, urban form, environmental protection, housing, traffic and multi-modal transportation, public goods, public utilities, and choices. Advanced urban economics, including location theory, and development economics; theory and methods of economic development; rationale and forms of market interventions and the basis for structuring public-private partnerships. The course is an intellectual exchange between a market economist and a planner on how to formulate and solve urban problems.