COURSE

UGOD5080

Economic Analysis of Cities and the Environment

Society Hub / Urban Governance and Design · 3 Credits

This interdisciplinary course will provide students a systematic framework of the interplay between urban growth and the environment from economic perspectives.By walking them through the state-of-the-art research in urban and environmental economic studies from both developing and developed countries, it will familiarize students with popular empirical strategies in applied economics and relevant fields to solve the most pressing environmental challenges accompanied with fast-urbanized cities. By the end of the class, students will be equipped with toolkits to evaluate policy questions in transportation, pollution and health, climate change, energy transition, housing market, and environmental justice.