Urban and Regional Economics

Code:

1EC402

Acronym:

ERU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Agrupamento Científico de Economia
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Economics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LECO	44	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	42	81

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

Regional and Urban Economics aims to introduce space in economic analysis. It will give students new concepts and tools that allow them to deal with space in economic analysis, and to understand the role of cities and regions in the economy.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Students will learn core theoretical concepts and methods of regional and urban analysis, enabling them to understand and make nainformed spatial reading ofthe economic reality.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Space and economic theory 1.2. The space of analysis: Concepts and methods of regional analysis 2. BACKGROUND TO REGIONAL ECONOMICS: LOCATION THEORY 2.1. The Von Thünen’s model 2.2. Industrial location: Weber’s model 2.3. Market areas and Spatial competition 3. THE CITY AS A SYSTEM OF URBAN CENTRES 3.1. Concept of city 3.2. Urbanization 3.3. Determinants of city formation 3.4. Central place theory and urban hierarchy 4. LAND RENT AND THE USE OF URBAN SOIL 4.1. Concept of urban rent 4.2. The model of family location 4.3. The location of economic activities within the city 4.4. Land uses in the city 5. REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICIES 5.1. Regional policy 5.2. Urban policies.

Mandatory literature

José da Silva Costa, Peter Nijkamp, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho (coord.); Compêndio de economia regional, Principia, 2009. ISBN: (E/k5/ 359(6))
Philip McCann; Modern urban and regional economics. ISBN: 978-0-19-958200-6

Complementary Bibliography

A. O’Sullivan; Urban Economics, Irwin, Chicago, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-07-298476-7(13)
Brakman, S., H. Garretsen, C. van Marrewijk; The new introduction to geographical economics, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-521-87532-5
E.M. Hoover, F. Giarratani; An Introduction to Regional Economics, West Virginia University, 1999

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and pratical lessons.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	20,00
Exame	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	42,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed evaluation with final exam requires students to complete one mini-test, a global test and a group work.

To proceed with the distributed evaluation, each student must reach a minimum grade of 6.0 points in each component (mini-testes and global test). Otherwise, students must take a final exam, covering the whole course. Missing any of the components results in 0 points in that component.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

 

Under distributed evaluation: 1st mini-test (mt) (20%) +  exam (ex) (60%) + group work (gw) (20%).

Final grade=Max (0.6*ex+0.2*mt+0.2*gw; ex)

Otherwise, students may take a final exam, representing 100% of the final grade.

 

Classification improvement

Final exam.