Cities and Arts - 2nd semester
Objectives
Cities are now a privileged stage for the promotion of cultural heritage, for the contemporary creation, for the
development of diverse cultural practices but also for the consolidation of a cultural democracy that combines
artistic practices with the fruition by its citizens.
Moreover, the cultural policies of cities are real mechanisms that contribute to its strategic development, while
the culture and the arts contribute to the promotion of cities at a national and international level.
It is therefore important to analyze many of these dynamics taking into account the different local realities but
comparing national experiences with various international case studies.
General characterization
Code
722051416
Credits
10
Responsible teacher
Docente a definir
Hours
Weekly - 3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
Bibliography
Florida, Richard (2012 [2002]). The rise of the creative class. New York: Basic Books.
Hall, Peter (1988). Cities of tomorrow: an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth
century. Blackwell Publishing.
Miles, Malcolm (2007). Cities and cultures. Routledge.
Mitchell, Don (2003). The right to the city: social justice and the fight for public space. New York: The Guilford
Press.
Parker, Simon (2011). Cities, politics and power. Routledge.
Roodhouse, Simon (2010). Cultural quarters. Intellect.
Teaching method
The teaching methodology is based on two dimensions. First, a speech teacher in each class, allowing an
overview of the topic and its consequences historiographical with calls attention to the large document
databases. This context leads to the involvement of students through exercises such as presentations citation
or a reference to the methods and content of the research work.
Evaluation method
Second, the progress of the evaluation
process, conceiving evaluation as a learning process that allows the use of soft skills to the making of social
sciences. For this reason the evaluation is structured according to three areas: consolidating (20%),
comprising a writing test performed followed by an oral presentation and justified from a set of citations;
construction (10%), constituted by the presence in class and participation in cultural activities close to the
themes of the program; research (70%), followed route of preparing a research paper from document
databases.
Subject matter
Cities and the Arts
I Part - Definitions
Cities, Culture and Art
II Part - Interaction
Cities producing culture
Arts and culture as factors of re-producing towns
III Part - Cities and policies
Creative cities
Cultural cities
Cultural quarters
IV Part - Case Studies
Programs
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