Module Identifier GG10210  
Module Title THE CITY AND COUNTRY: PROCESSES OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE  
Academic Year 2006/2007  
Co-ordinator Dr Michael J Woods  
Semester Semester 2  
Other staff Dr Gareth C Hoskins  
Course delivery Lecture   20 Hours. 1 hr lectures.  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 Hours Written exam.  100%
Supplementary Exam2 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
T. Hall (2001) Urban Geography Routledge 0415217695
Woods, M.J. (2004) Rural Geography 1st. Sage 0761947612
** Recommended Background
B. Ilbery (1998) The Geography of Rural Change Longman 0582277248
J. Rennie Short & Y-K. Kim (1999) Globalization and the City Longman 0582369126
S. Sassen (1991) The Global City Princeton UP 0691078661

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 4