Comment of the Day: Econ 210a: February 24, 2016: Urban Economics--DRAFT:
Simon St.Laurent: "It's too big for a week...
...but anything that references Nature's Metropolis (Cronon) would be very useful. I'd also recommend including something on how cities can fall from positions of strength - something looking at Philadelphia's relative fall in the 19th and early 20th centuries would be good, or something on Detroit's absolute fall.
Drew: For your purposes, I would add Darrity's (1992) AER...
..."A Model of 'Original Sin': The rise of the West and Lag of the Rest." It offers another perspective to view the historical development of cities, namely through the lens of slavery.
