Learning Outcomes:
by the end of this module, students should be better equipped to
1. Explain the key processes of urbanisation in a historical and contemporary context.
2. Identify and assess the processes that produce, and are produced by, urban areas.
3. Compare and contrast the urban experience in different regions of the world.
4. Undertake group fieldwork and work collaboratively in a team-based environment.
Indicative Module Content:
- Understanding the city.
- Early and Medieval cities.
- Colonial cities.
- Industrialisation and urbanisation.
- Responses to industrialisation.
- Suburbanisation, de-industrialisation and shrinking cities.
- Mid to late 20th century cities: socialism to post-socialism.
- Transition to post-socialism: Global cities.
- Megacities.
- Urban inequality.
- Poverty and slums.
- Segregation and enclaves.
- Gentrification.
- The creative city.
- Global housing crisis.
- Gender, cities and feminist urban geography.
- Resilience, sustainability and wellbeing.
- Urban transport and mobilities.
- Urban food systems.
- Smart cities and technological futures.