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Society and Housing Economics

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to support students to: - Understand principles of urban economy. - Identify urban, social, political, economic and environmental problems. - Understand feasibility studies concepts and targets; - Apply feasibility studies techniques, in Urban projects; - Evaluate different types of feasibility for Urban projects; - Prepare and Present Business plan for Urban projects; - Solve projects economic and financial problems by using feasibility models, and - Evaluate and assess demographic and economic growth, trends and policies. - Share ideas and communicate with other (funding firms and governmental agencies)
  • Course Goals
  • No Poverty
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    The definitions, concepts and main targets of feasibility studies; Economic models for cities and economic trends governing allocating of activities and uses, supply and demand and their effects on urbanization and on the society. Appling feasibility studies techniques in urban projects. It addresses pre-investment, preliminary and final feasibility studies for urban projects. Different investment opportunities and their costs and factors affecting real estate appraisal. Different cost and revenues items in different project stages, cost benefit analysis, financial structure of projects, cash flow tables and balance between the execution time table and the financial structure of the urban project. Demographic analysis and population projections methods using statistics computer applications.
  • Arabic Description

    The definitions, concepts and main targets of feasibility studies; Economic models for cities and economic trends governing allocating of activities and uses, supply and demand and their effects on urbanization and on the society. Appling feasibility studies techniques in urban projects. It addresses pre-investment, preliminary and final feasibility studies for urban projects. Different investment opportunities and their costs and factors affecting real estate appraisal. Different cost and revenues items in different project stages, cost benefit analysis, financial structure of projects, cash flow tables and balance between the execution time table and the financial structure of the urban project. Demographic analysis and population projections methods using statistics computer applications.
  • قسم
    التخطيط العمرانى
  • الساعات المعتمدة
    2
  • الدرجات
    الإجمالي ( 100 ) = نصف العام (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 30% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + درجة الامتحان (40)
  • الساعات
    ساعات المحاضرة: 1, ساعات التعليم: 2, ساعات المعمل: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • o Essential books (textbooks)
  • • Arnott, R., & McMillen, D. (2006). A companion to urban economics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
  • • Boardman, Greenberg, Vining & Veimer. (2014). Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice 4th ed. Pearson.
  • • Lall, S. (2009). Urban land markets. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • • Overton, Rodney. (2007), Feasibility Studies Made Simple, Martin Books.
  • • Salah, A. (2001). Policies in the directions of Cairo Urban Expansion, PhD. Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  • • Toeimah, A. (2012). Urban Rural Balance. PhD. Ain Shams University.
  • o Recommended books and Readings
  • • Afifi, S. (2014). Spatial Planning Support Systems in Egypt. PhD. Ain Shams University.
  • • Brealey, R.A., Myers, S.C., & Allen, F. (2011). Principles of corporate finance 10th ed. McGraw Hill/Irwin.
  • • Brown, D. (1974). Introduction to urban economics. New York: Academic Press.
  • • Capello, R., & Nijkamp, P. (2004). Urban dynamics and growth. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • • Leeuwen, E. (2010). Urban-rural interactions. Heidelberg: Physica.
  • • Robert E. Stevens, Philip K. Sherwood, (1982). How to prepare a feasibility study. Prentice-Hall.
  • • Rosser, M. (2015). Basic Mathematics for Economists Third Edition. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • o Periodicals, Web sites, … etc
  • • Periodicals for CAPMAS
  • • Flyvbjerg, Skramis Holm, M. K., & Buhl, S. L. (2002). Cost underestimation in Public Works Projects: Error or lie? Journal of the American Planning Association, vol 68, no 3, pp. 279-295.
  • • Bagheri, Sohrab,BOT a new form of Development of Industrial and Constructive Project,writing a scientific article, May2001.
  • • Shen, L., Tam, V. W. Y., Tam, L., Ji., Y. (2010). Project feasibility study: the key to successful implementation of sustainable and socially responsible construction management practice. Journal of Cleaner Production 18, pp 254-259.
  • • UN Habitat. World Cities Reports
  • • Yun, S., Caldas, C. H. (2009). Analysing decision variables that influence preliminary feasibility studies using data mining techniques. Construction Management and Economics 27, pp. 73-87.