Urban Economics

Economics 3P18
Term Paper Topics - Fall Term, 1997

Overview / Abstract

This term paper assignment is designed for use in a 3^rd year Urban Economics course. It is valued at 30% of the total course mark. The students review the literature on selected topics and then test theories with actual data from the census. The assignment, which draws census of population data from E-STAT, has worked well in this course, and could be easily adapted to other courses at other sites.

Lewis Soroka, (lsoroka@spartan.ac.brocku.ca)
Economics Department
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1

Course outline

Theories of location, city formation and urban spatial structure. Selected urban problems, e.g. housing, transportation, poverty, financing of municipal governments and the economics of city size. Social welfare implications of problems and policies are stressed. To register for this course, students must have taken a 2nd year course in micro-economics.
(extracted from the Brock University calendar)

Instructor's guide

Student assignment