Very Big Cities

This course will review the literature on models of cities for their adequacy/inadequacy in explaining spatial patterns, growth and change in the very large cities of the world. Students will select a metropolitan area from among the world's 20 largest and open lines of communications with experts and their peers in these cities as well as search for existing literature. We will compare these cities to NYC around such topics as response to topography, transportation, evolution of the CBD, in-migration, intra-urban migration, ethnicity and various planning initiatives.

Fall, Spring

023035