Description: Introduction to basic concepts and techniques of urban economic analysis to facilitate understanding of urban problems, urban growth and structure, poverty, housing, transportation, and ...

George S. Tolley, the noted economist who led groundbreaking research on resource use, farm labor migration, urban economics, and environmental economics, died Aug. 31 at the age of 95. A professor ...

India’s urban challenge is often framed as one of scale: cities are too large, too congested, too stressed. This framing is misleading. The core problem is not that India has too much urbanisation, ...

Editor’s Note: This Thursday’s Making Sen$e segment features the man who made the term “creative class” famous: Richard Florida. In this no-nonsense excerpt ...