| Module Identifier |
GG10210 |
| Module Title |
THE CITY AND COUNTRY: PROCESSES OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE |
| Academic Year |
2005/2006 |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr Michael J Woods |
| Semester |
Semester 2 |
| Other staff |
Dr Gareth C Hoskins |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 1 hr lectures. |
| Assessment |
| Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
|---|
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours Written exam. | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | 2 Hours Same format. | 100% |
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Learning outcomes
On succesful completion of this module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of :-
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the key processes shaping contemporary urban and rural change
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a range of relevant theoretical and conceptual literatures on urban and rural change
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the policy implications emerging from such change
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the skills of critical reading, interpretation and evaluation
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