Urban Geography

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop convincing arguments for positions on urban geographical issues
• Critically review the urban geography literature

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Understanding of different perspectives on the urban
• Knowledge of key thinkers, schools, and debates in urban geography
• Knowledge of key concepts in urban geography
• Understanding of different urban experiences

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Retrieve and manage trustworthy information
• Present and discuss ideas in groups
• Write convincing essays

Indicative topics:

• Urban transformations – industrialisation, globalisation, urbanisation
• Urban society I – the shock of the urban
• Urban society II – the Chicago School
• Urban policy I – revolution, reform, escape
• Urban policy II – rediscovering the city
• From urban managerialism to urban entrepreneurialism
• Gentrification and austerity
• Global and world cities
• Infrastructure-led development, postcolonial geographies, and comparative urbanism
• Urban policy III – urban political ecology and urban environmental justice
• Urban society III – the right to the city
• Research example I – urban networks
• Research example II – urban partnerships
• Research example III – localism
• Research example V – China’s Belt and Road Initiative, urban transformation, and inequality
• Research example VI – offsetting, urbanisation, and environmental justice
• Research example VII – urban struggles and the right to the city

Lectures, seminars, guided reading

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.