This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
In the Department of Geography and Environment, teaching will be delivered through a combination of classes/seminars, pre-recorded lectures, live online lectures, in-person lectures and other supplementary interactive live activities. ? This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures across Michaelmas Term. ? This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Michaelmas Term.
The formative work will be an essay plan that directly prepares students for the summative work.
Sassen, Saskia. 2001. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Second edition.Brenner, Neil and Nik Theodore (eds). 2002. Spaces of Neoliberalism.Davis, Mike. 2006. Planet of Slums.Robinson, Jennifer. 2006. Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development.Brenner, Neil and Christian Schmid (eds). 2014. Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization.Ghaziani, Amin. 2014. There Goes the Gayborhood?
Essay (65%, 2500 words), class participation (20%) and presentation (15%) in the MT.