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Topics covered in this course include economic theory, the purposes of urban planning, the evaluation and functions of urban planning in market economies, urban economics as a field of study, theories of urban spatial structure, urban economic structure, techniques of urban economic analysis, economic basis study of community, and economics of major urban problems, the meaning of development in different economic theories, unbalanced and balanced growth, dualism, economic “take-off”, income distribution, labor market, development planning and desegregation of national plans and regional growth theories.