Unit name | Ethnicity, Class and Housing in the City |
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Unit code | GEOG30020 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. David Manley |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Spatial Modelling 2 |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
The United Nations recently reported that over half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Within Europe and the United States of America this proportion is much higher (82% and 73% respectively). Thus, understanding how the urban environment operates is crucial for the wider social, economic and developmental transformations that modern society is undergoing. The unit will introduce key concepts through scholarly debates relating to the theoretical basis, empirical investigation and substantive investigation of urban sites focusing on the European and American experiences as illustrations. The course tackles three major aspects of the urban environment:
By the end of the unit you should:
The following transferable skills are developed in this Unit:
Lectures: ten 1 hour lectures
Five 1 hour seminars
Five 2 hour film screenings
One 2 hour practical class in Haggett, ~third week of teaching
The unit will include both formative and summative assessment. The formative assessment requires students to participate in seminar discussions and presentations throughout the course.
Summative assessment will comprise two elements:
The majority of the reading will be provided on a weekly basis consisting of journal articles. These are supplemented with the following key texts:
Essential Reading
Pacione, M. (2009). Urban geography: A global perspective. Routledge. (3rd Edition)
Finney, N., & Simpson, L. (2009). Sleepwalking to segregation'?: challenging myths about race and migration. Policy Press.
Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. (2008) Gentrification (Routledge).
Wacquant, L. (2011). Urban Outcasts. Polity Press.
Wilson, W. J. (1987) The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy. University of Chicago Press.