Economics 461

Urban Economics

Fall 2008
MWF 1:00-1:50 BB 116

Peter Mieszkowski - Baker 270
(713) 348 - 3453
Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: mieszko@rice.edu

Links to: Syllabus | Supplemental Notes | NBER Website

Course Readings

• Quigley, John M. and Raphael, Steven "Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn't It More Affordable?"
• Hamilton, Bruce W. "Zoning and Property Taxation in a System of Local Governments"

• Kahn, E. Matthew "Urban Air Pollution Despite Sprawl: The "Greeing" of the Vehicle Fleet"
• Glaeser, Edward "Consumer City"
• Glaeser, Edward "Are Cities Dying?"
• Mieszkowski, Peter "Recent Trends in Urban and Regional Development"
• Krugman, Paul "Cities in Space: Three Simple Models"
• Glaeser, Edward "Reinventing Boston: 1640-2003"
• Anas, et al. "Urban Spatial Structure" (Optional Reading)
• Mieszkowski, Peter and Barton Smith "Analyzing Urban Decentralization: The Case of Houston"
• Mieszkowski, Peter and Edwin S. Mills "The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization"
• Ades, Alberto and Edward Glaeser "Trade and Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants"
• Glaeser, Edward "Cities, Regions, and the Decline of Transport Costs"
• Glaeser, Edward and Matthew E. Kahn "Sprawl and Urban Growth"
• Glaeser, Edward "Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City"
• Kahn, Matthew E. "Green Cities: Environmental Challenges Posed by Urban Growth"
• Glaeser, Edward L. "Urban Colossus: Why is New York America's Largest City?"
• Levitt, Steven D. "Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not"
• Kim, Sukkoo and Margo, Robert A. "Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography"
• Glaeser, Edward L., Kahn, Matthew E., Rappaport, Jordan "Why Do Poor Live in Cities"
• Glaeser, Edward L., Shapiro, Jesse M. "The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction"