2. Economy
Urban Area Rural Area
The study of the
Urban part of the
economy is known
as Urban
Economics
The study of the
Rural part of the
economy is known
as Rural
Economics
3. Citizens Villagers
• More Educated • Less Educated
• More Civic Sense • No Civic Sense
• Awareness about their rights • Don’t know about their rights
• White color jobs
(Services in offices and Industries)
• Main occupation is agriculture
(bee-keeping, farming, livestock,
fisheriesetc)
• Basic Facilities of Life are available
(Health, Education, Electricity, Gas,
entertainment)
• Lack basic amenities of life
(Hospital, Universities,
entertainment etc)
Comparison of Urban and Rural Area
4. Objectives of the Course:
• This course will enhance your analytical skill. Studying
cities and their problems microscopically will sharpen your
analytical skill.
• Developing methodologies to overcome the problems
associated with urban localities.
• Learning how better to manage the problems of cities to
make them better places to live and make them centers of
economic and business activities.
• To plan for the future settlement pattern in cities to avoid
these problems faced by existing cities to control the
budgetary expenditures of the city district government.
• To enhance urban life safety, health and enhance urban
welfare to make urban economy more develop.
5. What is Urban economics?
• Urban Economics is a branch of microeconomics that
studies urban spatial structure and the locational choices
of households and firms.
• Urban Economics is concerned with the geographical
arrangement of household and firms in the urban areas.
• Urban Economics is the study of the locational choices
of firms and households, and the consequences of these
choices on the life of the inhabitans of that area and
government expenditures.
6. Continued.......
• Urban economics examines the question of where
of economic activity:
1) Households choose where to live and where to
work
2) Firms choose where to locate its factory,
office or store.
7. SCOPE OF URBAN ECONOMICS?
Part I: Location Choices
• Chapter 1: Introduction to City
• What is City
• What are the Advantages and Disadvantages
of Cities
• Types of Cities
• Structures of Cities
8. • Chapter 2: Factors of industrial Location
• Economic Factors
• Market Factors
• Non-Economic Factors
• Chapter 3: Urbanization and Urban Sprawl
• What is Urbanization (Migration)
• What are the Causes of Migration
• What is Urban Sprawl
• What are the Causes Urban Sprawl
• How to Control Urban Sprawl
9. • Chapter 4: Urban Poverty and Unemployment.
• What are the causes of Poverty and
Unemployment in Urban Area, what are its
consequences and how to remove it.
• Chapter 5: Urban Crime.
• What is Crime, types of urban crimes, causes
of urban crime, remedial measures to
overcome it.
Part II- Consequences of Urbanization:
10. • Chapter 6: Urban Traffic Congestion
• What is Traffice Congestion, what are its causes,
negative impacts on business and people, how
to manage it.
• Chapter 7: Urban Environmental Pollution
• Types of Urban Environmental Pollution,
main causes of environmental pollution,
consequences of environmental pollution.
• Chapter 8: Urban Housing and Land Problems
• What are the causes of increasing rents of the
residential houses in urban area.
• Why are the prices of land increasing in the
urban area.
11. • Chapter 9: Urban Education
• Causes of Low Literacy rate
• Consequences of low literacy rate.
• Remedial Measures.
• Chapter 10: Urban Public Finance
• What are the major sources of Revenue of a
City District Governmentt.
• What are the main heads of expenditure of
City District Government.
