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General Reading Assignment for the entire class:
( To view the sources for a paper, click on the title.)
I. OPENING REMARKS
II. THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF URBANIZATION
"Do Large Cities Have a Bright Future?"
"Why Does City Size Increase Productivity?"
"What Are the Causes of Urban Primacy in the Third World?"
"What is Driving Urbanization in China?"
III. THE EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION
"Is Urbanization Degrading the Environment?"
"Is Urbanization Causing Income Inequality and Poverty?"
Michael Thompson
IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
II. THE CAUSES OF URBANIZATION IN THE THIRD WORLD
Gaspar, Jess; Glaeser, Edward L. (1998), Information Technology and the Future of Cities", Journal of Urban Economics v43, n1 (January 1998): 136-156. [Omit pp 139-146.] (Electronic Reserve)
Gilbert, Alan G. (1998), "The Coping Capacity of Latin American Cities", in Migration, Urbanization, and Development: New Directions and Issues: Proceedings of the Symposium on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries, 22-24 January 1996, New York (1998): Publication: Norwell, Mass. and Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic; New York: United Nations Population Fund, 1998 pp. 435-468 [Omit Sections E-H.] (Paper Reserve)
Glaeser, Edward L. (1998), "Are Cities Dying?", Journal of Economic Perspectives v12, n2 (Spring 1998): 139-160. (Electronic Reserves)
Hansen, Niles (2001), "Are Very Large Cities Successful? Searching for Dynamic Externalities versus Evidence from Population Movements", International Regional Science Review v24, n3 (July 2001): 344-359. (Paper Reserve)
Feser, Edward J. (2002), "Tracing the Sources of Local External Economies", Urban Studies, v39, n13 (December 2002): 2485-2506 (Electronic Reserves)
Glaeser, Edward L. (1997), "Learning in Cities", National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper: 6271 November 1997. (Electronic Reserves-It is ot of order. It is at the end of the list.)
Guimaraes, Paulo; Figueiredo, Octavio; Woodward, Douglas (2000), "Agglomeration and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal", Journal of Urban Economics v47, n1 (January 2000): 115-135. [Omit pp. 120-126.] (Electronic Reserves)
Mitra, Arup (2000), "Total Factor Productivity Growth and Urbanization Economies: A Case of Indian Industries", Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies v12, n2 (July 2000): 97-108 (Paper Reserve)
Peri, Giovanni (2002), "Young Workers, Learning, and Agglomerations", Journal of Urban Economics v52, n3 (November 2002): 582-607. [Omit sections 3 and 4.] (Electronic Reserves)
Quigley, John M. (1998), "Urban Diversity and Economic Growth" in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 127-138. (Electronic Reserves)
Alonso-Villar, Olga (2001), "Large Metropolises in the Third World: An Explanation", Urban Studies v38, n8 (July 2001): 1359-1371. (Electronic Reserves)
Henderson, Vernon (2002), "Urbanization in Developing Countries", World Bank Research Observer v17, n1 (Spring 2002): 89-112. (Electronic Reserves)
Henderson, Vernon (2002), "Urban Primacy, External Costs, and Quality of Life", Resource and Energy Economics v24, n1-2 (February 2002): 95-106. (Paper Reserve)
Puga, Diego (1998), "Urbanization Patterns: European versus Less Developed Countries", Journal of Regional Science v38, n2 (May 1998): 231-252. [Omit pp. 234-246.](Electronic Reserve)
Roberts, Bryan R. "Urbanization, Migration and Development", Sociological Forum, Vol. 4, No. 4, Dec. 1989, pp. 665-691. [Omit pp. 679-685] (Electronic Reserve)
Servet Mutlu, "Urban Concentration and Primacy Revisited: An Analysis and Some Policy Conclusions" in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 37, No. 3 April 1989, pp. 611-639. [Omit pp. 620-625] (Electronic Reserve)
Song, Shunfeng; Zhang, Kevin Honglin (2002), "Urbanisation and City Size Distribution in China", Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2317-2327. (Electronic Reserves)
Chen, Aimin; Coulson, N. Edward (2002), "Determinants of Urban Migration: Evidence from Chinese Cities", Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2189-2197 (Electronic Reserves)
Liang, Zai; Chen, Yiu Por; Gu, Yanmin (2002), "Rural Industrialisation and Internal Migration in China", Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2175-2187. (Electronic Reserves)
Pan, Zuohong; Zhang, Fan (2002), "Urban Productivity in China", Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2267-2281. (Electronic Reserves)
Young, Denise; Deng, Honghai (1998), "Urbanisation, Agriculture and Industrialisation in China, 1952-91", Urban Studies v35, n9 (August 1998): 1439-1455. (Electronic Reserves)
Zhang, Kevin Honglin (2002), "What Explains China's Rising Urbanisation in the Reform Era?", Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2301-2315. (Electronic Reserves)
Hope, Kempe Ronald, Sr.; Lekorwe, Mogopodi H. (1999), "Urbanization and the Environment in Southern Africa: Towards a Managed Framework for the Sustainability of Cities", Journal of Environmental Planning and Management v42, n6 (November 1999): 837-859. (Paper Reserve)
Jegasothy, K. (1999), "Population and Rural-Urban Environmental Interactions in Developing Countries", International Journal of Social Economics v26, n7-8-9 (1999): 1027-1041. (Paper Reserve)
Kahn, Matthew E. (2000), "The Environmental Impact of Suburbanization", Journal of Policy Analysis and Management v19, n4 (Fall 2000): 569-586. (Electronic Reserves)
Brown Lester R. and Jodi L. Jacobsen, "The Future of Urbanization: Facing Ecological and Economic Constraints", in Population and Environment , D. Heddy (editor), 1995, Ch. 10, pp.132-149. [Use only pp 139-145.] (Paper Reserve)
Marcotullio, Peter John (2003), "Globalisation, Urban Form and Environmental Conditions in Asia-Pacific Cities", Urban Studies v40, n2 (February 2003): 219-247. (Electronic Reserves)
Agesa, Richard U. (2001), "Migration and Urban to the Rural Earnings Difference: A Sample Selection Approach", in Economic Development and Cultural Change, July, vol. 49, No. 4, p. 847. (Electronic Reserves)
Glaeser, Edward L.; Rappaport, Jordon; Kahn, Matthew E. (2000), 'Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?' Publication: National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper: 7636 April 2000. [Omit sections II ans III.) (Electronic Reserves - In Two Parts)
Douglas S. Massey, "The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century" in Demography, Volume 33, Number 4, November 1996, pp.. 395-412. (Electronic Reserve)
"Do Large Cities Have a Bright Future?"
"Why Does City Size Increase Productivity?"
"What Are the Causes of Urban Primacy in the Third World?"
"What is Driving Urbanization in China?"
"Is Urbanization Degrading the Environment?"
"Is Urbanization Causing Income Inequality and Poverty?"
"Do Large Cities Have a Bright Future?"
"Why Does City Size Increase Productivity?"
"What Are the Causes of Urban Primacy in the Third World?"
"What is Driving Urbanization in China?"
"Is Urbanization Degrading the Environment?"
"Is Urbanization Causing Income Inequality and Poverty?"