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Urban Geography: Exploring The City

Key information

  • Module code:

    5SSG2058

  • Level:

    5

  • Semester:

      Spring

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

The aim of this module is to explore the relationships between urbanization and the broader social, economic, political and environmental transformations of a globalising world. Exploration in this module is employed both as a tactic to investigate contemporary cities thematically, and as an opportunity to re-imagine what we might understand to be ‘the city’ and ‘the urban’ using recent theoretical approaches. While the module addresses a wide range of cities across the global north and south, London is used throughout as a pivotal case through which to ground our thematic and theoretical explorations.  

Assessment details

 2500 word Essay (100%)

Learning outcomes

At the completion of the module students should be able to:

  • Identify and understand the uneven relationships between contemporary urbanization and broader social, economic, political, and environmental transformations of a globalising world
  • Explain these relationships using a range of recent theoretical approaches and vocabularies
  • Illustrate these relationships using examples from across the global north and south
  • Relate their own experiences of living in London to these wider processes
  • Develop critical, future-orientated perspectives on cities and the urban

Teaching pattern

16 hours lectures; 4 hours presentations/workshops

Department

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