GG10210 - THE CITY AND COUNTRY: PROCESSES OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE

Module Identifier	GG10210
Module Title	THE CITY AND COUNTRY: PROCESSES OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE
Academic Year	2001/2002
Co-ordinator	Dr Michael Woods
Semester	Semester 2
Other staff	Professor Mark Goodwin
Course delivery	Lecture	20 Hours 1 hr lectures.
Assessment	Exam	2 Hours Written exam.	100%
	Resit assessment	2 Hours Same format.	100%

Module outline

1. What is the Rural?

2. Economic Change: The Productivist Countryside

3. Economic Change: The Post-Productivist Countryside

4. Population Change in the Countryside

5. Selling the Countryside

6. Rural Conflicts

7. Conserving the Countryside

8. Changing Rural Lifestyles

9. Hidden Rural Lifestyles

10. What is the Urban? Industrial and Post-Industrial Cities

11. Urban Economic Change

12. Dual Cities and Social Polarisation

13. Globalisation and Global Cities

14. The City of Consumption, Gentrification and Culture

15. Selling the City of Spectacle

16. Producing the Built Environment

17. New Labour, New Cities?

18. Cities of Privatisation and Partnership

Aims of the module

This module aims to introduce students to urban geography and rural geography, and specifically to help students develop an
understanding of the processes of conflict and change in rural and urban areas.

Module objectives / Learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of :-

the key processes shaping contemporary urban and rural change

a range of relevant theoretical and conceptual literatures on urban and rural change

the policy implications emerging from such change

the skills of critical reading, interpretation and evaluation

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
B. Ilbery. (1998) The Geography of Rural Change.
M. Pacione. (1997) Britain's Cities..
S. Sassen. (1991) The Global City..
D. Sudjic. (1993) The 100 Mile City..