The Dynamics of City Regions: Social and Economic Change


Semesterangivelse: Efterårs kursus Kurset udbydes i blok 1 Kurset udbydes i skemagruppe A Kurset giver 7,5 ETCS point

 


Udgave: Efterår 2012 NAT
ECTS points: 7,5 ECTS
Point: 7,5 ECTS
Point: 7,5
Blokstruktur: 1. blok
Skemagruppe: A
Fagområde: geog
Varighed: 7 weeks, week 36-44
Omfang: 5 lessons pr, week
Institutter: Department of Geography and Geology
Studieordning: 2012-curriculum
Uddannelsesdel: Kandidat niveau
Kontaktpersoner: Høgni Kalsø Hansen hh@geo.ku.dk, tlf: 35 32 25 65
Skema- oplysninger:  Vis skema for kurset
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Undervisnings- periode: 7 weeks, week 36-44
Undervisnings- form: The form of teaching and work will be class teaching with active participation of students by means of student presentations, group-work etc.
Indhold: City regions, creative cities, knowledge economy, innovation, labour and human capital, segregation, social polarisation, divisions of labour and social classes, industrial localisation, new urban spaces, amenities and urban growth, strategic planning
Kompetence- beskrivelse: Cities and city regions are fundamental places in modern societies. They are essential places of living and vital places for innovation and creativity. City regions have become more complex with an increasingly multiplicity of urban forms together with a more diffuse urban structure as large parts of the countryside is being integrated in the urban fabric. This has produced new social and economic spaces of relations and flows within and between cities and city-regions. The course studies contemporary social and economic changes of city-regions. Cities and city regions are examined as new frameworks for production, living and strategic urban planning. Focus is on urban restructuring, the rise of the post-industrial knowledge based economy and the new economic, political and social geographies, the new divisions of labour and social classes.
Målbeskrivelse: Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
  • provide an solid overview of and discuss the new frameworks for production, living and strategic urban planning in and between cities and city regions
  • identify and analyse the central economical, social and political changes and geographical consequences of the current transformation using key concepts, central theoretical perspectives and empirical material including
  • provide an overview of and discuss and analyse the spatial and societal consequences of the rise of the post industrial knowledge economy and the new economic and social geographies including the new divisions of labour and social classes
  • undertake an analysis of the transformation of cities and city regions using key theories, concepts and empirically material
  • Tilmelding: Via Selvbetjeningen på KUnet mellem den 15. maj og 1. juni.
    Ansøgningsfrist for Åbent Universitet: June 10
    Eksamensform: Examination form: Set oral examination (written report and curriculum) without preparation time
    Form of assessment: The examination is graded according to the 7-point grading scale.
    Grading: external examiner appointed by the University
    Scope: The examination takes 20 minutes, inclusive grading
    Make-up exam: As ordinary exam.
    Eksamen: The report must be submitted on the 30th of October 2012 at 11am in three copies in room 04.1.411 and the oral examination is on the 8th and 9th of November 2012. Reexam: The report must be submitted on the 28th of January 2013 at 11am in three copies in room 04.1.411 and the oral examination is on the 31th of January 2013.
    Kursus hjemmeside:
    Kursus hjemmeside: Please see Absalon
    Pensum: Please note that the official reading list for the current study year 2012-2013 will be updated and uploaded in Absalon by the 4th week after the start of the block.
    Undervisnings- sprog: Engelsk
    Sidst redigeret: 6/9-2012



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