PPD 714: Advanced Urban Development
University of Southern California
Professor Richard K. Green
213-740-4093
This is a Ph.D. level course on topics in Urban Development. This emphasis of the course is on reading, presenting and critically reviewing some classics, old and new, on issues important to those who wish to do research on cities and their regions.
The requirements of the course are three:
(1)Doing the reading before class and participating in class. Your performance in participating will determine 1/3 of your grade.
(2)Leading a ½ hour class discussion on a reading of your choice. You will need to get clearance from me on the reading, and you must let me know your proposed reading by October 1, 2010. This will determine another 1/3 of your grade.
(3)A critical literature review of a topic of interest to you involving an urban topic. The lit review must discuss a minimum of five papers (more would be better) and should be 15-20 double spaced, 12-font, pages long. This will determine the final 1/3 of your grade.
All of USC’s academic conduct rules apply to this course; because you are choosing to be in it, I am assuming this will not be an issue with any of you.
Topics and Readings
August 28 Lenses of Social Science
George Orwell, Why I write.
September 4 Urban Economics
Jan Brueckner (1987), The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Theory of the Muth-Mills Model, in E.S. Mills, ed., Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume II.
September 11 Land Use Regulation
Tiebout, Charles. 1956. A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures.Journal of Political Economy 64(5): 416-424.
Quigley John and Steven Rafael. 2004. Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn’t it More Affordable? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(1): 129-152.
Schuetz, Jenny. 2009. No Renters in my Suburban Backyard: Land Use Regulation and Rental Housing. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28(2): 296-323.
Kahn, Matthew 2011. Do Liberal Cities Limit housing Development? Evidence from California, Journal of Urban Economics, 69(2):223-228.
September 18 Growth in Cities
Edward Glaeser, HediKalla, Jose Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1992) Growth in Cities, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Political Economy 100(6): 1126-1152.
John Quigley (1998) Urban Diversity and Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(2):127-38.
September 25 Urbanization and Development
J. Vernon Henderson (2004), Urbanization and Growth, Brown University Working Paper
Marianne Fay and Charlotte Opal (1999), Urbanization without Growth, World Bank Research Working Paper.
October 2 Sprawl
Reid Ewing (1997), Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable? Journal of the American Planning Association, 63:1, 107-126.
Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson (1997) Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal? Journal of the American Planning Association, 63:1, 95-106.
George Galster, Royce Hansen, Michael Ratcliffe, Harold Wolman, Stephen Coleman and Jason Freihage (2001), Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground, Housing Policy Debate, 12(4), 681-717.
Richard K Green (2006) Nine causes of sprawl, Wharton Real Estate Review, 60-67.
October 9 Agglomeration
Paul Krugman (1997) Development, Geography, and Economic Theory, MIT Press.
October 16Demographics and Housing Development
Myers, Dowell and John Pitkin (2009) Demographic Forces and Turning Points in the American City, 1950 To 2040, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 626: 91-111.
Hillary Hoynes and Daniel McFadden (1994) The Impact of Demographics on Housing and Non-Housing Wealth in the United States, NBER Working Paper 4666.
October 23 Housing
Stephen Malpezzi (1996) Housing Prices, Externalities and Regulation in US Metropolitan Areas, Journal of Housing Research, 7(2) 209-242.
Richard K. Green and Stephen Malpezzi (2003),A Primer on US Housing Markets and Housing Policy, Chapter 2. Urban Institute Press.
SudhirAlldiVankatesh (2000) American Project, Chapter 6. Harvard University Press.
October 30
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities I
November 6
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities II
November 13
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis I
November 20
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis II
November 27
Student Led Discussions I
December 4
Student Led Discussions II