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Postgraduate Course: The City and its Others (ARDE11003)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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
Assessment Information
The course is assessed via a research essay and seminar report with a combined total of 4,000 words.
Special Arrangements
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Stephen Cairns
Tel:
Email: stephen.cairns@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Christopher Miller
Tel: 0131 221 6150
Email: c.miller@ed.ac.uk
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