Prof Gareth Jones S506 and Prof Sylvia Chant S417a

Dr Julie Ren

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Urbanisation and Development. This course is available on the MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Environment and Development, MSc in Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research), MSc in Local Economic Development and MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

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This course aims to provide a grounding in key debates in urban studies and policy with reference to the Global South. It highlights the interconnections between evolving urban ideas and research and policy. Anticipated topics include The City and the Urban Paradigm; the State and 'Public' Policy; Social Life of Cities; Gender, Poverty and the city, Inequality and Slums; Class and Elite spaces;  Governance and Participation; Rights to the City; violence and conflict cities. Dedicated lectures will draw from staff research, with particular emphasis on China, Brazil, Mexico, India, The Gambia, South Africa, Costa Rica and the Philippines.

20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the MT.

One essay of 1,500 words (formative).

A comprehensive reading list mostly focussing on articles will be provided. Useful books include: Beall, J. and S. Fox, Cities and Development, (2009); S.Chant, Gender, Generation and Poverty, Elgar (2007); S Chant & C McIlwaine,  Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South, Routledge (2016); K Datta & G A Jones (Eds), Housing and Finance in Developing Countries, Routledge (1999); M Davis, Planet of Slums (2006); S Graham, Cities under Siege: the new military urbanism (2010);Y-t Hsing, The Great Urban Transformation (2010); G A Jones & D. Rodgers, Youth Violence in Latin America (2009); K Koonings and D Kruijt (Eds), Mega-Cities: the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the Global South, Zed (2009);  Lemanski, C. and C. Marx (eds) The City and Urban Poverty, (2015); C. Moser, Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: assets and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2009, Brookings (2009); Parnell, S. and E. Pieterse, Africa's Urban Revolution, (2014); A. Roy and A. Ong (eds.) Worlding Cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global (2011); A. Simone, City Life from Jakarta to Dakar, (2010); H de Soto, The Mystery of Capital, (2001); F Wu (Ed), China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism (2007); Ward, P.M., Jimenez Huerta, E.R and M. Di Virgilio, Housing Policy in Latin American Cities: a new generation of strategies and approaches for 2016 UN-Habitat III, (2015).

Exam (75%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (25%, 2500 words) in the LT.