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Undergraduate Course: Divided Cities (GEGR10106)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaGeography Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionA majority of the world's population has now become urban, ensuring that many of the most urgent, fascinating, and frustrating questions of our time have become urban questions. This course is concerned with the deeply problematic planetary intensification of urban inequality over the past three decades, looking at the role of neoliberal ?statecraft? in reproducing and reinforcing harsh social divisions within cities. Using detailed case studies from four continents, it will examine how market processes and public policies drive spatial polarization/marginalization and geographical injustice, particularly by class and ?race?. We examine in seriatim the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; segregation and ghettoisation; 'carceral' urban systems; and suburbanization and 'fortification'. A normative approach is adopted throughout, encouraging students to think about how urban inequality in all its forms might be challenged by scholarship and by activism.

Replaces: GEGR10097 Understanding the City: Marginality and Division
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  32
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. 1. To provide a detailed, cross-national and critical understanding of the geographies of urban inequality so that students are capable of offering professional level insights.
2. 2. To provide a detailed look at the intellectual history of urban division complimented by recent developments.
3. 3. To gain a knowledge and appreciation of the standard techniques of enquiry into social injustice in the city.

4. 4. To provide a set of analytical lenses to understand key concepts relating to urban problems so that students are able to critically identify and conceptualise problems found in divided cities.
5. 5. To gain an appreciation and understanding of the various forms of urban division.
Assessment Information
Class Assessment: As outlined in course handbook

Degree Assessment: One 2,000 word essay (40%)plus One two-hour examination (2 questions) (60%)
Overall mark for the course (ie degree coursework and examinations) of at least 40
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Study Abroad Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Beth Muir
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: beth.muir@ed.ac.uk
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