320.507 (21S) Critical Urban Geography (BW4, BW4 alt)
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- LV-Titel englisch Critical Urban Geography (BW4, BW4 alt)
- LV-Art Proseminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- LV-Modell Onlinelehrveranstaltung
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 5.0
- Anmeldungen 4 (20 max.)
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Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- LV-Beginn 14.04.2021
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Intendierte Lernergebnisse
This seminar will primarily be a reading seminar on critical urban theory. After the first two sessions which will take the form of lectures on the historical shifts in urban morphology and the factors behind it, we will read roughly 3-4 papers per week. These papers will be selections of seminal works by both classic and contemporary authors, providing you with abroad overview of past debates in urban theory. By the end of this seminar, you will have a thorough understanding of not just changing urban morphology but a critical understanding of the urban theory behind it.
Inhalt/e
14/4/21 – 1st Meeting – Lecture: Urban transformations and its driving forces
21/4/21 – 2nd Meeting – Lecture: Urban transformations and its driving forces (continued)
28/4/21 – 3rd Meeting – Reading –The Chicago School
5/5/21 – 4th Meeting – Reading – Castells, Harvey and Lefebvre
12/5/21 – 5th Meeting – Reading –Castells, Harvey and Lefebvre (continued)
19/5/21 – 6th Meeting – Reading – Global and World Cities
2/6/21 – 7th Meeting – Reading – Ordinary Cities
9/6/21 – 8th Meeting – Reading – Metabolic Urbanism
16/6/21 – 9th Meeting – Reading – Planetary Urbanism
23/6/21 – 10th Meeting – Reading – Towards a New Urban Theory
30/6/21 – 11th Meeting - Presentations - 16:00 – 18:30
Literatur
Knox, P. and Marston, S. (2015) Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context (7th edn.). Chapter 11 – Urbanization and the Global Urban System; Chapter 12 – City Spaces: Urban Structure
Select readings from: Park, R. E., Burgess, E. W., and McKenzie, R. D. (1967) The City. Chicago: UOC Press.
Wirth, L. (1938) ‘Urbanism as a Way of Life’, The American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), pp.1-24.
Select readings from:
- Castells, M. (1977) The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach.
- Harvey, D. (1989) The Urban Experience.
- Lefebvre, H. (1968) The Right to the City.
- Lefebvre, H. (1970) The Urban Revolution.
Beaverstock et al. (1999) ‘A roster of world cities’, Cities, 16(6), pp.445-458.
Sassen, S. (1996) ‘Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims’, Public Culture, 8, pp.205-223.
Select readings from Knox, P. and Taylor, P. (1995) World cities in a world-system (Eds.).
Amin, A. and Graham, S. (1997) ‘The ordinary city’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Robinson, J. (2002) ‘Global and World Cities: A View from off the Map’, IJURR, 26.3, pp. 531-554.
Robinson, J. (2013) – ‘The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(6), pp.659-677.
Robinson, J. (2005) ‘Urban geography: world cities, or a world of cities’, Progress in Human Geography, 29(6), pp.757-765.
Gandy, M. (2004) ‘Rethinking urban metabolism: Water, space, and the modern city’, City, 8(3), pp. 363-379.
Gandy, M. (2005) ‘Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City’, IJURR, 29.1, pp.26-49.
Kaika, M. and Swyngedouw, E. (2000) ‘Fetishizing the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks’, IJURR, 24.1, pp. 120-138.
Select readings from: Heynen, N., Kaika, M., and Swyngedouw, E. (2005) In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism.
Brenner, N. (2015) ‘Introduction: Urban theory without an outside’, in Brenner, N. (ed.) Implosions/Explosions: Towards a story of Planetary Urbanism.
Brenner, N. and Katsikis, N. (2015) ‘Is the Mediterranean Urban?’, in Brenner, N. (ed.) Implosions/Explosions: Towards a story of Planetary Urbanism.
Brenner, N. and Katsikis, N. (2020) ‘Operational landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene’, Architectural Design.
Brenner, N. and Schmid, C. (2011) ‘Planetary Urbanism’, in Gandy, M. (Ed.) Urban Constellations.
Brenner, Neil and Christian Schmid (2015) "Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?" City 19.2-3: 151-182
Brenner, N. and Schmid, C. (2013) ‘The ‘Urban Age’ in Question’, IJURR, 38(3), pp.731-755.
Peck, J. (2015) ‘Cities beyond Compare?’, Regional Studies, 49(1), 160–182.
Roy, A. (2015) ‘What is urban about critical urban theory?’, Urban Geography.
Prüfungsinformationen
Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe
Regular attendance (min. 10 of 12 sessions)
The course will be graded by one essay (40%), one presentation (40%), and through weekly reading comprehension (20%).
The essay (2000 words max) will have a deadline of 1/6/21. It will be on a topic that has been covered in the classes up to that point.
The presentation will be on a city of your choice, where you will present on urban themes in that city, and will take place in the last session.
Additionally, a 1-page synthesis of that week’s readings must be sent before the class starts to show comprehension.
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Bachelorstudium Geographie
(SKZ: 655, Version: 17W.1)
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Fach: BW4 Raumordnung und Regionalpolitik
(Wahlfach)
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Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen (
0.0h SE/PS / 6.0 ECTS)
- 320.507 Critical Urban Geography (BW4, BW4 alt) (2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 3., 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen (
0.0h SE/PS / 6.0 ECTS)
-
Fach: BW4 Raumordnung und Regionalpolitik
(Wahlfach)
- Bachelorstudium Geographie
(SKZ: 655, Version: 20W.1)
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Fach: BW4 Raumplanung und Stadtforschung
(Wahlfach)
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Raumplanung und Stadtforschung (
0.0h XX / 10.0 ECTS)
- 320.507 Critical Urban Geography (BW4, BW4 alt) (2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 3., 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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Raumplanung und Stadtforschung (
0.0h XX / 10.0 ECTS)
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Fach: BW4 Raumplanung und Stadtforschung
(Wahlfach)
- Bachelorstudium Geographie
(SKZ: 655, Version: 12W.2)
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Fach: Raumordnung und Regionalpolitik
(Wahlfach)
-
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen (
0.0h SE/PS / 6.0 ECTS)
- 320.507 Critical Urban Geography (BW4, BW4 alt) (2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
-
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen (
0.0h SE/PS / 6.0 ECTS)
-
Fach: Raumordnung und Regionalpolitik
(Wahlfach)