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Undergraduate Course: Divided Cities (GEGR10106)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryMany of the most urgent, fascinating, and frustrating questions of our time have become urban questions. This course is concerned with the 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 the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; ethnic segregation and ghettoisation, and territorial 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.
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 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 the various processes creating urban divisions, such as gentrification and displacement; ethnic segregation and ghettoisation, and territorial 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  37
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
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 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Class Assessment: As outlined in course handbook

Degree Assessment: One 2,000 word essay (40%) plus One two-hour examination (60%)
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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. 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. To provide a comprehensive grasp of the intellectual history of urban division complimented by recent developments.
  3. To gain a knowledge and appreciation of the standard techniques of inquiry into social injustice in the city.
  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. To gain an appreciation and understanding of the various forms of urban division.
Reading List
1. 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).
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: tom.slater@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kirsty Allan
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: Kirsty.Allan@ed.ac.uk
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