The course deals with urban economics and urban development. The course describes the free market and the land as a factor of production, price and rent. Also, the course shows reasons for government intervention and its repercussions.

In this seminar we will learn and discuss the meanings and implications of marginality and centrality in urban planning. Urban researchers are constantly debating on the aspects of inter and inner-urban socio-spatial gaps. Studies have dealt with mapping urban segregation; with inequality and  its implications on planning democracy and representation; with mutual contradictions in the ways urban groups conceive themselves against others; with borders as physical and imaginary urban constitutions; with stigma and change in urban divides; differences in socio-spatial regulations and allocations through planning, budgets and  development. Critical studies also present some alternative planning methods- that mainly aim at encouraging democracy, minimize market impacts and oppose the current binary of gentrification or neglect in the less affluent urban parts. While the issues are highly significant for current urban planners and architects, we will learn the different aspects by connecting between theoretical, empirical and local studies. The classes will include lectures, presentations of existing papers, and development of students researches.