Dr Murray Low S512

This course is available on the MPA in European Public and Economic Policy, MPA in International Development, MPA in Public Policy and Management, MPA in Public and Economic Policy, MPA in Public and Social Policy, MSc Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research), MSc in City Design and Social Science, MSc in Culture and Society, MSc in Environment and Development, MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and USC), MSc in Health, Community and Development, MSc in Regional And Urban Planning Studies, MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po) and MSc in Urbanisation and Development. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Perspectives on contemporary urban politics. The course will equip students interested in urban change and development to understand and critically assess the variety of ways in which urban politics and policies are imagined and discussed in universities as well as in the world of policy. It will also develop their understandings of key debates and themes in contemporary urban political life.

Topics covered will include: imagining urban politics; theories of urban politics, 'globalisation' and urban political life; urban governance; civil society and urban social movements; urban dimensions of citizenship and migration; policing, violence and urban politics; urban politics and ‘neoliberalism.’

20 hours of lectures in the LT. 4 hours of lectures in the ST.

Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the ST.

J Borja and M Castell, Local and Global, 1997; J Davies and D
Imbroscio, eds., Theories of Urban Politics (2nd Edition), 2009; M
Douglass and J Friedmann, eds., Cities for Citizens, 1998; D Judge, G
Stoker and H Wolman, eds, Theories of Urban Politics, 1995; P Le Galegrave;s,
European Cities, 2002; L Sandercock, Towards Cosmopolis, 1998; S. Sassen
Territory, Authority, Rights, 2006; M P Smith, Translocal Urbanism,
2001.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.