Course Overview
This course aims to introduce graduate students to a set of core writings in urban sociology. Topics involve community’s changing nature, social inequality, political power, socio-spatial change, technological change, and the relationship between the built environment and human behavior.
Course Objectives
- To offer a “sociology of knowledge” approach to the field of urban sociology, so as to prepare more advanced students for pursuing an urban sociology concentration in preparation for doctoral exams.
- To educate students about the nature and changing character of the city and the urban experience, including the larger social, political, and economic dynamics of urban change so as to provide a more nuanced appreciation of the contemporary, comparative, and historical context in which urban planning skills and sensibilities have been developed and could be applied
Course Content
- Studying the city: approaches the city and social theory
- Theoretical perspectives on the city: urbanism, urban ecology, postmodernism, comparative urbanism, Southeast Asian context
- Urban political economy, consumption, and socio-spatial analysis
- Urban diversity and global cities: globalization and diversity, gendered spaces
- Social Inequality and Urban Problems: housing and education, the shadow economy in Southeast Asian cities, urban social movements
- Planning the urban environment: planning, urban utopia, the entrepreneurial city
Assignments
In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to complete and submit three assignments.
DURATION: 6 Months
REGIONS TARGETED: Global
COURSE FEE: €1000
ORGANIZERS: GRI
LANGUAGE: English and French
FORMAT: Online Learning
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