Urban Geography

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Knowledge of key concepts in urban geography
• Knowledge of key thinkers, schools, and debates in urban geography
• Understanding of different perspectives on the urban
• Understanding of different urban experiences

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Retrieve and manage trustworthy information
• Present and discuss ideas in groups
• Write convincing essays

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop convincing arguments for positions on urban geographical issues
• Critically review the urban geography literature

1.The urban revolution – capitalism, industrialisation, urbanisation

2.The shock of the urban – Tonnies, Simmel

3.Urban society I – the Chicago School

4.Urban policy I – urban renewal and modernist utopias

5.Urban policy II – the urban problem

6.From urban managerialism to urban entrepreneurialism

7.Regeneration and gentrification

8.Global and world cities

9.Decolonising urban geography – comparative urbanism

10.Urban policy III – urban policy mobilities, resilient cities, terrorism, climate change

11.Urban society III – diversity, cosmopolitanism, everyday sexism, Black Lives Matter

12.Representing the urban – the situationists, psychogeography, Perec

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, seminars, guided reading

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External