Urban management is an integrative, trans-disciplinary field of practice using concepts and techniques necessary to deliver positive social outcomes in the face of rapid urbanization and environmental challenges. Urban management draws on many disciplines including economics and finance, geography, government and political science, demography and statistics, property, law and sociology. As such, it is increasingly drawing on many professions including planning, urban and architectural design, landscaping, engineering, land administration, property development and management, marketing and community planning to satisfy the increasingly complex demand of cities in terms of management and governance. This course provides an overview of these various components of urban management, with a view to equip the students with basic knowledge of how cities function and how to make them function better. Such issues as principles of urban management; urban and regional economics; institutional framework for city management; marketing the city; transport and urban development; land and housing management and urban poverty will be discussed.