Reading Packet for Honors College Seminar -- Topics in Urban Economics (21:525:254)
Professor Barr
1: The Current State of Newark
Reading: “Newark in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000” (2003). The Brookings Institution
Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy: Washington DC.
Lecture 2: Review of Supply and Demand
Reading: Chapter 3 from McConnell, C. R., and Brue, S. L. (2005). Microeconomics, 16th ed.
McGraw-Hill Irwin: New York.
Lecture 3: The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Cities
Reading: “Why in America?” Chapter 6 from Rosenberg, N. (1994). Exploring the Black Box:
Technology, Economics and History. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Lecture 4: Industrialization and the Changing Nature of Labor
Reading: Chapters: Introduction, 1, 2 & 3 from Hirsch, S. E. (1978). Roots of the American
Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark: 1800-1860. University of
Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia
Lecture 5: Agglomeration Economies and Cities
Reading: “Why Proximity is Good” Chapter 2 from O’Flaherty, B. (2005). City Economics.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge
Lecture 6: Agglomeration Economies, Manufacturing and Newark
Reading: Pages 9 – 68 from Popper, S. H. (1952). Newark, N.J., 1870-1910: Chapters in the
Evolution of an American Metropolis. Ph.D. Dissertation: New York University.
Lecture 7: Transportation Economics and the Morris Canal
Reading: Pages 36-61, from Drummond, J. O. (1979). Transportation and the Shaping of the
Physical Environment in an Urban Place: Newark, 1820-1900. Ph.D. Dissertation: New York
University.
Lecture 8: Transportation and the Separation of Economic Activity
Reading: Chapters 2 & 6 from Jackson, K. T. (1985). Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization
of the United States. Oxford University Press: New York.
Lecture 9: The Economics of Migration
Reading: Pages 191 – 202 from McCann P. (2001). Urban and Regional Economics. Oxford
University Press: Oxford.
Lecture 10: European Migration to the U.S.
Reading: Hatton, T. J. and Williamson, J. G. (1994). “What Drove the Mass Migrations from
Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century?” Population and Development Review, 20(3), 533-559.
Lecture 11: The Great Migration—Black Migration from the South
Reading: Collins, W. J. (1997). “When the Tide Turned: Immigration and the Delay of the Great
Black Migration.” The Journal of Economic History, 57(3), 607-632.
Lecture 12: Models of Integration and Segregation
Reading: “Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex” Chapter 4 from Schelling, T. C. (1978).
Micromotives and Macrobehavior. W.W. Norton & Co.: New York.
Lecture 13: Black Migration to Newark and the Development of the Ghetto
Reading: Chapters 1, 2 & 3 from Price. C. A. (1975). The Afro-American Community of
Newark, 1917-1947: A Social History. Ph.D. Dissertation: Rutgers University: New Brunswick.
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Lecture 14: The Economics of the Housing Market
Reading: Chapter 10 from Mills, E. S. and Hamilton, B. W. (1994). Urban Economics, 5th ed.
HarperCollins: Upper Saddle River.
Lecture 15: Housing Abandonment in Newark
Reading: Introduction and Summary from Sternlieb, G. and Burchell. R. W. (1973). Residential
Abandonment: The Tenement Landlord Revisited. Center for Urban Policy Research: Rutgers
University, New Brunswick.
Lecture 16: Urban Renewal in the United States
Reading: “Teaford, J. C. (2000). “Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath.” Housing Policy Debate,
11(2), 443-465.
Lecture 17: Revitalization and Gentrification
Reading: Newman, K. (2004). “Newark, Decline and Avoidance, Renaissance and Desire: From
Disinvestment of Reinvestment.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, 594(1), 34-48.
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