FAKULTAS TEKNIK PROGRAM STUDI MAGISTER TEKNIK PERENCANAAN

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Website: www.untar.ac.id e-mail: mpwk@untar.ac.id

COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE CODE/CR.HRS (KODE MATA KULIAH/SKS) : PK61013 / 3
COURSE TITLE (NAMA MATA KULIAH) : Urban Economic-1 / Ekonomi Kota-1
STUDY PROGRAM (PROGRAM STUDI) : Real Estate and Urban Development Planning.
Perencanaan Wilayah Kota dan Real Estat
SEMESTER : Odd 2019 / Ganjil, 2019
DOSEN : Kemal Taruc


COURSE DESCRIPTION (URAIAN MATA KULIAH/SILABUS):

This is one of the fundamental courses in the program for students who are not familiar or not majoring
economics in their undergraduate study. It is aimed to build a framework to acquire the basic ideas and
fundamental thinking of economics as a means to further understanding of a more complex economics
concepts. The main objective for students is to gain a broader perspective of economic concepts, to think
critically, and find a relevance to urban and territorial planning and real estate development.


2018 MODE OF
TOPICS SUB-TOPICS COMPETENCE ACQUIRED REFERENCE
SESSIONS LEARNING

1. • Ground rules,
Friday context; Gain a framework of economic Classroom • Handouts
Introduction
31 • History of thinking Lecture • Galbraith.
August economic thought;

2. Fundamental • Definitions; Understand different areas of

Classroom
Friday of Economic • Economic Way of economics and the basic Heyne, Ch. 1
Lecture
7 Sept. Thinking Thinking; concepts.

• The Concept of
3. Fundamental Demand; Understand the fundamental Classroom
Friday of Economic Heyne, Ch. 2-3
• The Concept concepts of demand and costs. Lecture
14 Sept. Thinking
of Costs;
Apply the demand and cost
4. • Supply-Demand; concepts in shaping the basic
Understanding Classroom
Friday supply-demand curve. Heyne, Ch. 3-4
Markets • Supply of Goods; Lecture
21 Sept. Understand different types of
goods.

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 • Marginal Values
Understand the basic ideas of • Mansfield Ch.
5. and Economic Classroom
Understanding marginality and how it is 6-7
Friday Decisions; Lecture
Markets relevant and being used in • Mankiw, Ch.
5 Oct. • Market
economic analysis. 14-15
Mechanism;
• Firm Behavior and Understand the relevance of
6. the Organization
Understanding marginal costs and revenues in Classroom • Mankiw, Ch.
Friday of the Industry
Markets analyzing different types of Lecture 16-17
12 Oct.r
• Types of markets markets.
Acquire the basic ideas and
fundamental thinking of
7.
economics as a means to Individual
Friday Mid-term Exam
further understanding of a Essay writing
19 Oct.
more complex economics
concepts.
8. • Market Failure; Being able to think critically
Environmental Classroom
Friday • Polluters Pay why market fails and the • Turner Ch. 5
Economics Lecture
2 Nov. Principles impacts to the environment.

• Socially Optimum
9. Production Being able to understand the
Environmental Classroom • Turner Ch. 10,
Friday rationale of environmental
Economics • Environmental Tax Lecture 12
9 Nov. principles applies to economics.
vs. Standards
• Profit
10. Fundamentals Accumulation Understand the critical thinking
Classroom
Thur. of Political of political economy toward the • D. Harvey
• The Circuit of Lecture
22 Nov. Economy conventional market approach.
Capital
• Conflicts and Understand how the critical
11. Fundamentals • Scott &
Contradiction political economy influences Classroom
Friday of Political Roweiss
• Urban Land the urban development Lecture
30 Nov. Economy • J. Harvey
Economics processes.
Being introduced and
understand the latest trend in
12. • Principles of
Trends in New economic thinking, a move Classroom
Friday Ecological Daly & Farley
Economics from environmental to Lecture
7 Dec. Economics
ecological approach and what
are their difference.
Being introduced and
• Behavioral understand the latest trend in
13. Economics economic thinking in the new
Trends in New Classroom
Wed. areas of behavioral, cognitive Wilkinson
Economics • Cognitive and Lecture
12 Dec. and neuro-economics and how
NeuroEconomics they influence the urban
development processes.
Gain a comprehensive
14. understanding on the wide
Individual
Friday Final Exam spectrum of economic thinking
Essay writing
14 Dec. relevant to urban and territorial
planning and development.

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Main Reading:

Daly, H. E., & Farley, J. (2011). Ecological economics: principles and applications. Island press.
Galbraith, J. K. (1987). A history of economics. Penguin.
Harvey, D. (1989). The urban experience. JHU Press.
Harvey, J. (1996). Urban land economics. London: MacMillan Press
Hawkin, P. (1993). The ecology of commerce. New York: HarperBusiness.
Heyne, P. (1991), The economic way of thinking, 7th ed., New York: Macmillan.
Mankiw, N.G. (2009, 2007). Principles of microeconomics. Cengage Learning.
Mansfield, E. & Yohe, G. (2003). Microeconomics: theory and applications. New York: W.W. Norton.
Scott, A. J. & Roweiss, S. T. (1991). The Urban land questions. Routledge. In Urbanization and urban
planning in capitalist society (pp. 123-157).
Turner, R.K., Pearce, D. & Bateman, I. (1994). Environmental economics. Singapore: Harvester-Wheatsheaf.
Wilkinson, N., & Klaes, M. (2017). An introduction to behavioral economics. Macmillan International Higher
Education.



Jakarta, 2 August, 2018
Lecturer in Charge / Dosen Penanggung Jawab

(Kemal Taruc)

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