The City and its Others (P02304)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : ACE-P-ACE

This course covers the both classic theoretical literature on the city in architecture, sociology, geography and cultural studies, and more recent material on non-normative urban forms such as the edge cities, ex-urbs, megacities, barrios, and desa-kotas. The course tracks the shifting character of urban theory in its attempt to account for and explain the emergence of these 'other' urbanisms in the context of globalization. The course deals with explicitly cross-cultural urban and post-urban exemplars, with specific focus on cities in South America, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and the UK. It will be informed by recent work on postcolonialism, globalization and cybernetics, as well as the various forms of visual knowledge by which emergent urban conditions are known, made, traversed, imagined and inhabited.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Architecture - Design, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course has three main learning outcomes:
1) to introduce a range of classic and contemporary theoretical literature on the city
2) to understand the diversity of forms of urban and quasi-urban settlement that have emerged around the globe in the recent past
3) to develop capacity to engage with inter-disciplinary approaches to studying the city