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Training The Trainers Program
Urban Economics, Planning and Policy
July 10-26, 2006
Huangshan, China
Curriculum
MODULE
A: Urban Economics
July 10-14, 2006 (Five Days)
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Day |
Topics |
Instructor |
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Day 1: Monday 10 July
Morning
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00 |
Opening Ceremony
Introduction to the
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Course Overview)
Urban Economics,
Policy and Planning:
Urban Spatial
Structure and City Competitiveness
Readings:
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Ding, C., 2005, City
Development Strategy: How to Make Plan to Enhance City
Competitiveness, City Planning Forum (submitted).
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Ding, C, 2004,
Spatial Structure and City Competitiveness,
ACTA Geographic Sinica,
Vol. 59 supplement: 85-92.
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Ding, C, 2004, Is
Population Density of Chinese Cities High? City
Planning Review,
Vol. 199, No. 8: 43-48.
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Chengri Ding
Chengri Ding |
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Day 1: Monday 10 July
Afternoon
2:00-3:30
4:00-5:30
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A non-technical
presentation of land-use theory
Readings:
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DiPasquale, D. and
W. Wheaton. Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets.
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996.
Exercises and/or
class discussion |
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou |
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Day 2: Tuesday 11 July
Morning
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00
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The basic urban model
with identical agents
Readings:
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Brueckner, J., 1987,
The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Treatment of
the Muth-Mills Model, E.S. Mills (Ed.), Handbook of
Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 2, Chap. 20, pp.
821-845.
The basic urban model
with identical agents (continued)
Readings:
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Brueckner, J., 1987,
The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Treatment of
the Muth-Mills Model, E.S. Mills (Ed.), Handbook of
Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 2, Chap. 20, pp.
821-845.
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Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou |
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Day 2: Afternoon
2:00-3:30
4:00-5:30
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Optimality of the
equilibrium allocation and comparative statics of the urban
model
Readings:
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Brueckner, J., 1987,
The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Treatment of
the Muth-Mills Model, E.S. Mills (Ed.), Handbook of
Regional and Urban Economics
Exercises and/or
class discussion |
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou |
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Day 3: Wednesday 12 July
Morning
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00
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The basic urban model
with heterogeneous agents
Readings:
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Brueckner, J., 1987,
The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Treatment of
the Muth-Mills Model, E.S. Mills (Ed.), Handbook of
Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 2, Chap. 20, pp.
821-845.
Open versus closed cities
Readings:
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Fujita, M., 1989,
Urban Economic Theory, Cambridge University Press.
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Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou
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Day 3: Afternoon
2:00-3:30
4:00-5:30
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Absentee landlords versus land ownership
Readings:
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Fujita, M., 1989,
Urban Economic Theory, Cambridge University Press.
Exercises and/or
class discussion |
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou
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Day 4: Thursday 13 July
Morning
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00
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Urban unemployment:
Efficiency Wages
Readings:
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Zenou, Y., Smith, T.E., 1995, Efficiency
wages, involuntary unemployment and urban spatial structure,
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 25, 547-573.
Urban unemployment:
Efficiency Wages (continued)
Readings:
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Zenou, Y., Smith, T.E., 1995, Efficiency
wages, involuntary unemployment and urban spatial structure,
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 25, 547-573.
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Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou
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Day 4: Afternoon
2:00-3:30
4:00-5:30 |
Urban unemployment:
Job search and job matching
Readings:
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Zenou, Y., Wasmer, E., 2002, Does city
structure affect search and welfare?, Journal of Urban
Economics, 51, 515-541.
Exercises and/or
class discussion |
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou |
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Day 5: Friday 14 July
Morning
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00
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Rural-urban migration
Readings:
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Harris, J.R., Todaro, M.P., 1970,
Migration, unemployment and development: A two-sector
analysis, American Economic Review, 60, 126-142.
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Brueckner, J.K., Zenou, Y, 1999, Harris-Todaro
models with a land market, Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 29, 317-339.
Exercises and/or
class discussion and overview of the course
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Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou
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Day 5: Afternoon
2:00-5:30
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Urban Growth Boundary
Readings:
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Chengri Ding, Gerrit Knaap, and Lewis
Hopkins, Managing Urban Growth with Urban Growth Boundaries:
A Theoretical Analysis
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Chengri Ding
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MODULE B: Urban Policy and Planning
July 17-21,24-26, 2006 (Eight Days)
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Day |
Topics |
Instructor |
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July 17 (Mon):
AM
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Introducing this
Module
Urban problems as
market failures [Presentation]
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Moore, T., 1978, Why Allow Planners to do What They Do?
A Justification from Economic Theory, Journal of the
American Institute of Planners, October: 387-97.
- Brueckner,
Jan
K. Urban sprawl: Diagnosis and remedies, International
Regional Science Review 23 (2000) 160-171.
Public Pricing
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Bird, Richard
M., Getting it right: Financing urban development in
china
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Dr. Knaap |
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July 17 (Mon):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Introducing
scientific methods
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Yang, Yung Y, Basic Concepts of Research in Economics
Introducing
Portland and Portland-area data |
Dr. Knaap
Arnab Chakraborty |
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July 18 (Tue):
AM
8:30-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Hedonic price
theory
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Rosen, S.,
"Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product
Differentiation in Pure Competition," Journal of
Political Economy, January 1974.
Hedonic price
examples
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Brigham, Eugene
F., 1965, The Determinants of Residential Land Values,
Land Economics 41, 325-334.
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Potepan; Michael J. 1996, Explaining Intermetropolitan
Variation in Housing Prices, Rents and Land Prices,
Real Estate Economics, Vol. 24.
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Dr. Knaap |
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July 18 (Tue):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Hedonic Studies
using Portland-area data
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Knaap, Gerrit J., Chengri Ding, and
Lewis Hopkins, Does Planning Matter? 2001, The Effects
of Light Rail Plans on Land Values in Station Areas,
Journal of Planning, Education, and Research, 21,1:
32-39.
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Song, Yan and Gerrit-Jan Knaap,
2003, New Urbanism and Housing Values: A Disaggregate
Assessment, Journal of Urban Economics, 54: 218-238.
Introducing
statistical analysis |
Dr. Knaap
Arnab Chakraborty |
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July 19 (Wed):
AM
8:30-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Zoning and land
use controls
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Pendall, R.
2000. "Local land-use regulation and the chain of
exclusion," Journal of the American Planning
Association 66: 125-142
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Quigley, John
and Larry Rosenthal, The Effects of Land Use Regulation
on the Price of Housing: what do we know, what can we
learn?
Growth management
and UGBs
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Knaap, Gerrit J.
1985. The price effects of UGB in Metropolitan Portland,
Oregon. Land Economics 61(1): 28-35.
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Schwartz, S.I.,
and P. Zorn, 1988, A Critique of Quasiexperimental and
Statistical Controls for Measuring Program Effects:
Application to Urban Growth Control, Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management, 7,3: 491-505.
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Dr. Knaap |
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July 19 (Wed):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Regression
analysis
Working
Session |
Dr. Knaap and Arnab
Chakraborty |
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July 20 (Thu):
AM
8:30-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Growth management
and housing markets
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Song, Y. (In
press), "The Spillover Effects of Growth Management
Constraints on Housing New Construction," in C. Connerly,
T. Chapin, and H. Higgins (eds), Regulating
Development in the Sunshine State: Evaluating Florida's
Growth Management Approach. Ashgate Publishing
Limited.
Housing
Submarkets ¨C heterogeneous demands
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Dr. Song |
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July 20 (Thu):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Affordable
Housing
Policy analysis
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Dr. Song
Dr. Knaap and Arnab
Chakraborty |
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July 21 (Fri):
AM
8:30-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Measuring Urban
Forms
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Song, Yan and
Gerrit J. Knaap, (2004),"InternallyConnected,No
Commercial, With a Touch of Open Space: The
Neighborhoods of New Homes in the Portland Metropolitan
Area." Journal of Urban Design, submitted.
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Song, Y. (2005), "Smart growth and
urban development pattern: A comparative study."
International Regional Science Review, 28(2): 239-265.
Implications of
urban form
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Song, Y., G.
Gee, Y. Fan, and D. Takeuchi (2005), "Do physical
neighborhood characteristics matter in predicting
traffic stress and health outcome?" Transportation
Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behavior.
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Dr. Song
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July 21 (Fri):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Regression
diagnostics
Working
Session & Trouble shooting workshop |
Dr. Knaap and Dr.
Song |
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July 24 (Mon):
AM
8:30-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Public Finance
and Urban Development
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W. E. Oates, R.
M. Schwab, The impact of urban land taxation: The
Pittsburgh experience, National Tax Journal 50 (1997)
1-21.
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J.K. Brueckner, H. Kim, Urban
sprawl and the property tax, International Tax and
Public Finance 10 (2003) 5-23.
Property Tax and
Urban Sprawl
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Dr. Song |
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July 24 (Mon):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Group 1 & 2
presentations
Group 3 & 4
presentations |
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July 25 (Tue):
AM
8:30-10:00
10:15-12:00
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Transportation,
Urbanization, and Development
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Ingram, G.K.
Patterns of Metropolitan Development: What Have We
Learned? Urban Studies, Jun98.
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Ingram, G.K. and
Liu, Z. Motorization and Road Provision.
Land Use and
Transportation Integration
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Dr. Song |
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July 25 (Tue):
PM
2:00-3:45
4:00-5:45 |
Group 5 & 6
presentations
Group 7 & 8
presentations |
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July 26 (Wed):
AM
8:30-12:00 |
Planning in Market System
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Ding, C., Urban Spatial Development
in the Land Policy Reform Era: Evidence from Beijing,
Urban Studies.
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Dr. Ding |
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July 26 (Wed):
PM
2:00-5:30
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Planning in
Market System-Beijing 2020 Envision
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Chengri Ding,
Yan Song, Gerrit Knaap, and Yan Huang, 2005, Urban
Planning and Sustainable Spatial Structure
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Dr. Ding |
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