Courses

Analysis of the economics of community growth and the application of economic principles in solving problems and exploiting opportunities generated by the process of urban development. better) PW: Executive Systems

The microeconomics of U.S. urban development patterns from the industrial revolution to the present. Decentralization of economic activity and population; the resulting urban problems and possible solutions to these problems.

Students analyze the economic forces that determine location choices of firms agglomerations resulting from these location choices. The methodologies used solutions to market failures, and urban economic development are examined. Education Administration (EDAD)

This course focuses on the economic analysis of urban areas and its application to urban and regional planning. Its main emphasis considers economic functions that promote growth and development of urban centers. These include the process of urbanization, industrial and urban locations, urban economic base, central place functions and functional classification, land price and urban land use structure, municipal revenues and expenditures, fiscal policies and services.

Biology, economic importance and control strategies for arthropod pests commonly invading households and commercial structures in urban environments; laboratory consists of urban pest identification and special presentations and demonstrations covering topics related to urban pest problems and their control. Offered in 2011-2012 academic year and alternating years thereafter.

Students in this course will critically engage with scholarly and governmental research relating to urban environments, urban environmentalism, and urban environmental management. Emphasis is placed on students developing and executing a unique, topically relevant research project aimed at improving our understanding of the way in which human-environment interaction influences, and is influenced by, urban geography and the urban experience. (MULT).

This course will deal with infectious diseases in American cities over time. Severe epidemics of contagious disease are a creation of civilization, requiring as they do the large population that crowded cities provide. The course will deal with a number of devastating diseases (among them tuberculosis, cholera, syphilis, hepatitis, polio, and AIDS) and their effect on city life. The social construction of disease and the changing cultural meanings of different diseases will be dealt with.

Examination of the ways that rapid urbanization in the world today produces unequal food systems, impacting the ways we eat, access, grow, ship, and sell food. The course covers the unequal environmental and health consequences of our industrial food system, designed to feed large urban populations.

This course introduces students to basic concepts of tree and plant physiology, and management of trees and related vegetation. Topics may include soil preparation, basic pruning, turf and landscape management, and herbicides. Business concepts, such as permits, licenses, and insurance will also be covered. At the end of this course students will be prepared for the Urban Forestry Certification Exam.

Explanation of various concepts of urban geography and the role of geographic site and location in the evolution of cities. The course includes study of global urbanization, urban hierarchy, morphology, land use patterns, classification of cities and town-country relations. A special focus on slums and squatters in developing countries is included.