Course Name	Urban Administration
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Sung-Jun Myung
	Affiliation	Department of Public Administration

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The objective of this course, "Urban Management and Policy," is to understand the origin of many urban problems and to analyze them from the public's perspective. The class uses short case studies to do the class discussions and to help students understand the critical issues of urban management.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Selected Chapters from O’Sullivan, A. 2003. Urban Economics. McGraw-Hill;

Hall, Peter. 1980. Great Planning Disasters. Berkeley, CA: UC Press.; and

Saxennian, Anna Lee 1998. Regional Advantages. MA: Harvard Univ. Press

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments: 3 short essays and a final exam.

Grading Scheme: attendance and class participation(40%), essays(30%), & a final exam(30%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1:  What is a city?

Week 2:  What is a city?

Week 3:  Why Cities?

Week 4:  Why Cities?

Week 5:  Origin and Development of a city

Week 6:  Origin and Development of a city

Week 7:  Urban System - Hierarchy and Centrality

Week 8:  Mid-term exam break

Week 9:  Urban System - Hierarchy and Centrality

Week 10: Urban problems and the government

Week 11: Urban problems and the government

Week 12: National environment and urban Land use problems

Week 13: National environment and Urban Land use problems

Week 14: City and its competitiveness

Week 15: City and its competitiveness

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel:  055-751-5784          e-mail: mwmpsr@gnu.ac.kr