Economic Models of Cities
Facultative Course | semester II | MA 1 | ects 2.5

Lecturer: Antonio Calafati


The course will provide the categorial bases for the study of cities interpreted as dynamic socio-economic systems and the analysis of the “European model of the city”. After illustrating the constituent variables of the (socio-economic) structure of cities, the relations between them and the mechanisms that determine their changes over time, we will first examine the processes of production and consumption that characterize urban systems and are identified with their processes (both static and dynamic). The second part will focus on the European model of the city, distinguished by trajectories of economic growth that respect the constraints of political participation, social cohesion, environmental sustainability and urban quality. The European city will be studied from an economic perspective in all its complexity and specificity, and compared critically with models in other regions of the world.