Undergraduate Course: Divided Cities (GEGR10106)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A 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 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 it will examine how market processes and public policies drive spatial polarization/marginalization and the urbanization of injustice. We examine in seriatim the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; ethnic segregation and ghettoisation, and territorial stigmatization. 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 |
| Course description |
Many of the most urgent, fascinating, and frustrating questions of our time have become urban questions. This course is concerned with the intensification or 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 it will examine how market processes and public policies drive spatial polarization/marginalization and the urbanization of injustice. We examine the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; ethnic segregation and ghettoisation, and terrestrial stigmatization. We explore numerous theories that scholars have formulated to analyse and explain urban inequalities. 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 45 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
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 |
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| Exam Information |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 1. 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. provide a detailed look at the intellectual history of urban division complimented by recent developments.
- 3. gain a knowledge and appreciation of the standard techniques of enquiry into social injustice in the city.
- 4. 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. gain an appreciation and understanding of the various forms of urban division.
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Reading List
Wacquant, L. (2008) Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. (2008) Gentrification (New York: Routledge).
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Mcallister
Tel: (0131 6)50 4917
Email: Sarah.McAllister@ed.ac.uk |
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