URBN PL M236ATheories of Regional Economic Development I
Urban Planning · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Geography M230A and Public Policy M240.) Introduction to theories of location of economic activity, trade, and other forms of contact between regions, process of regional growth and decline, reasons for different levels of economic development, relations between more and less developed regions.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
URBN PL M236A
- URBN PL M236BGlobalization and Regional Development
- URBN PL 236CAdvanced Workshop on Regions in World Economy
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.