ECON 137Introduction to Urban and Regional Economics
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Survey of broad range of policy and theoretical issues that are raised when economic analysis is applied in urban setting. Topics include urbanization and urban growth, housing markets, location decisions of households and firms, transportation, urban labor markets, and local public sector.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 11.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 137
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 6 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.