{"c_title":"[941.715A] Studies in Spatial Structure","c_info":"3 credits | Lecture\/Seminar | Doctoral | Dept. of Environmental Planning","c_summary":"This course focuses on empirically and theoretically grounded understanding of logics and mechanism immanent in urban spatial structure according to urban growth and development process. It gives advanced theories and concepts of economic, social and cultural factors that shape the spatial structure of cities and metropolitan regions. The course seeks to provide theoretical and analytical tools for understanding the growth and spatial structure of cities in prosperous regions as well as cities in dying regions in the era of the globalization and information age. In addition, this course aims is to understand under what conditions, and why the economic growth of cities will positively or negatively affect intra-urban spatial structure, and to discuss the role of political and institutional dynamics in shaping the urban spatial structure in different modes of economic organization."}