Friday, 6 December 2013

URBAN ECONOMICS and regionAL DEVELOPMENT


INTRODUCTION
The Urban and Regional economics Major provides students with grounding in the key issues of urban and regional development at a local, national and international level. The courses in the Urban and Regional economics major are drawn from the disciplines of geography, environmental studies, Aboriginal studies, sociology, politics, tourism and economics.  The major will provide you with grounding in key urban issues as well as the flexibility to follow your interests in particular aspects of urban and regional development such as the potential for tourism in regional economics and the implications for indigenous people of regional development. 
URBAN ECONOMICS
Urbanization is the best symbols of the radical physical economics and social transformation which mankind is passing through as a consequence of development. Implicit in these states is that urbanization is both a product of and the tool for development.
REGIONAL ECONOMICS
Regional (spatial) these is a branch of economics which deals with the spatial distribution of activities and spatial variation in economics performance.
CONCLUSION
Urban economics has a strong relationship with regional economics and also with location theory. There is regional issues optimal size and analyzing of economics product in towns and cities. 
REFERENCES
Arnott, Richard; McMillan, Daniel P., Eds. (2006). A Companion To Urban Economics. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-4051-0629-8.
McCann, Philip (2001). Urban and Regional Economics. Oxford University Press

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