Module Identifier GG10210  
Module Title THE CITY AND COUNTRY: PROCESSES OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE  
Academic Year 2004/2005  
Co-ordinator Dr Michael J Woods  
Semester Semester 2  
Other staff Miss Kate Edwards, Mr Gareth C Hoskins  
Course delivery Lecture   20 Hours 1 hr lectures.  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 Hours Written exam.  100%
Supplementary Assessment2 Hours Same format.  100%

Learning outcomes

On succesful completion of this module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of :-


Aims

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.

Content

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

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
Woods, M.J. (2004) Rural Geography 1st. Sage ISBN 0761947612
T. Hall (2001) Urban Geography Routledge 0415 217695
** Recommended Background
S. Sassen (1991) The Global City Princeton UP 0691 078661
J. Rennie Short & Y-K. Kim (1999) Globalization and the City Longman 0582 369126
B. Ilbery (1998) The Geography of Rural Change Longman 0582 277248

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 4