Unit Code: URP615

Unit Name: Urban and Regional economics

Description: The course provides students’ knowledge and skill to identify the economy of an area, starting from the structure of macroeconomic behavior in a region and micro economic, and individual behavior in a regional space. To be able to forecast (assessment) economic capability and potency of an area by concerning external factors especially its relation with other areas and internal capability of public finance and private investment. Besides wider regional context, the discussion also will lead to understand detail aspect of sectoral problems in a certain urban and regional area. This understanding then, by a simulation or study case, will be a point of concerns to formulate an economic policy proposal for the area, and as a contribution of a policy in a wider context especially in urban and regional planning.

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Prerequisite: URP612

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2