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Additional materials are provided electronically.
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Course offered as a part of a programme
Course, bachelor’s level
7.5 credits
Malmö | daytime | 100%
17 January 2028 - 20 February 2028
Course code: BY450E
This course is offered as part of programme:
Course content
This course gives an introduction to how the links between economic activities and urban spatial structures are studied and understood in economic theory. The course delves into how economic activities and factors impact urban development, land use, and localization of business, residential, industrial, and logistics areas. In the course, students will acquire knowledge in basic economic theory relevant to understanding localization, clustering, and agglomeration patterns at both the urban and regional scales and use digital tools and geographical analytical methods to study and understand these patterns. The course also covers the roles of housing, transport labor markets, and urban land rent for urban and regional growth and development. In addition, the course covers the relationship between economic mechanisms and sustainable development by addressing how economic factors influence urban sprawl and urban densification and how the decision-making of various stakeholders, including governments, relates to economic processes and activities, e.g., how they manage and mitigate negative externalities such as pollution, congestion, and crime. The students will also develop skills to propose and present planning measures for urban areas regarding construction, infrastructure, commercial zones, logistics services, etc. and argue for their proposals, taking environmental and social sustainability as well as equality and digitization into account.
Entry requirements
General entry requirements + Mathematics 2a or Mathematics 2b or Mathematics 2c, Science studies 1b or Science studies 1a1+1a2 and Civics 1b or Civics 1a1 +1a2, English 6 or equivalent
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