GY206 Half Unit
Urban Geography and Globalisation
This information is for the 2018/19 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Ryan Centner STC601c
Availability
This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Course content
This course introduces students to the intersection of urban geography and the geography of globalisation, with the aim of understanding key references in academic debates, and their relevance for real-world social, economic, and political issues in our cities today. The course offers a critical, human-geographical perspective on ‘global cities’, how these manifest in different parts of the world, how they matter for distinct realms of urban life, and how we can study features of global urban geography. Themes include empires, development, and cities; ‘global cities’; ‘Third World cities’ or ‘cities of the global South’, urban spaces of neoliberalism, new geographies of urban theory, and planetary urbanisation. We examine cases related migration, sexual minorities, the circulation of ideas, and gentrification. Examples come from both the ‘global North’ and the ‘global South’, with the aim of helping students understand when and how these categories may be useful.
Teaching
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT.
Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6.
Formative coursework
The formative work will be an essay plan that directly prepares students for the summative work.
Indicative reading
Sassen, Saskia. 2001. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Second edition.
Brenner, Neil and Nik Theodore (eds). 2002. Spaces of Neoliberalism.
Davis, Mike. 2006. Planet of Slums.
Robinson, Jennifer. 2006. Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development.
Brenner, Neil and Christian Schmid (eds). 2014. Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization.
Ghaziani, Amin. 2014. There Goes the Gayborhood?
Assessment
Essay (65%, 2000 words), class participation (20%) and presentation (15%) in the MT.
Key facts
Department: Geography & Environment
Total students 2017/18: Unavailable
Average class size 2017/18: Unavailable
Capped 2017/18: No
Value: Half Unit
PDAM skills
- Self-management
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
- Communication