[PEN-L:11538] Re: Urban & Regional Econ: Help!

["William S. Lear" <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, July 30, 1997 at 12:54:16 (-0700) BHOPE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>If PEN-Lers can provide some suggestions, text recommendation, journals,
>readings, web-sites, etc to consult I would be most grateful.  It would be nice
>to identify some core readings and built the course from there.  With a
>relatively small class I would like to have students work on case studies, have
>student presentations, and a class forum which minimize lectures and emphasizes
>class discussion and student interaction.

Just a few things:

John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch. _Urban Fortunes: The Political
     Economy of Space_. University of California Press, 1987.

Allen J. Scott and Edward W. Soja. _The City: Los Angeles and Urban
     Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century_. University of California
     Press, 1996.

Mike Davis. _City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles_.
     Vintage Books, 1992.

Carey McWilliams. _Southern California: An Island on the Land_. Gibbs
     Smith, 1973 [1946].

John Yinger. _Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs
     of Housing Discrimination_. Russell Sage Foundation, 1995.

Barkley Rosser has also written on this topic, including a review of
Paul Krugman's _Development, Geography, and Economic Theory_ which I
believe was to be published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization.

The National Bureau of Economic Research has some stuff on ghettos by David
M. Cutler in their "Working Paper Series" which I think can
be found at http://www.nber.org/.

>Other: Michael P. and I are teaching a section of our Writing Proficiency
>course for our majors.  It looks like we'll assign Doug H's Wall Street book as
>part of the course.

Excellent choice.


Bill