Cities, Migrations and Diversity
Objectives
It is intended that the students develop the following competences:
- Grasp of knowledge about the major approaches towards the understanding of the city, its transformation dynamics and impacts on social and spatial structures;
- Aptitude to identify urban studies issues and to reflect on them in an integrated and multidisciplinary way;
- Ability to use the acquired theoretical-methodological means, autonomous and critically, in the creation and implementation of urban themes, in the research domain and in professional contexts.
General characterization
Code
722171252
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Ana Isabel Neto Antunes Afonso
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- Ascher, François, Novos Princípios do Urbanismo seguido de Novos Compromissos Urbanos - um léxico. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte
- Gottdiener M., Hutchison, R., and Ryan, M.T.: The New Urban Sociology. Colorado: Westview Press.
- Mingione, Enzo (ed.). Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
- Portas, N., Domingues, A., Cabral, J., Politicas Urbanas, Tendências, Estratégias, Oportunidades. Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
- Salgueiro, T. B., A Cidade em Portugal. Uma Geografia Urbana. Porto, Afrontamento.
- Short, J. R. , Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment. New York:Palgrave Macmillan
- Solà-Morales, I., Territorios. Barcelona: Ed. Gustavo Gili.
- Thorns, David C., The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Life. New York:Palgrave Macmillan
Teaching method
he teaching methodologies consist in the combination of lecture sessions with discussion of contents through oral presentations and debate of case studies about the multiplicity issues and theories about city and territory. Students' involvement in the lectures and active participation are expected, mainly through the discussion of issues and selected moderated debates.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Production of a paper about one of the selected issues of the syllabus(70%), students' performance and class participation about specific issues(30%)
Subject matter
The programme is organised around the following modules:
1. Geography and the city
-Space: rigidity and change
-Lisbon, the city and the metropolitan area: A spatial narrative
- Urban System. Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula and Europe
2. Architecture and urban space.
- City and architecture: the look of the architect
- Traditional city, contemporary city. Identification of the characteristics of the contemporary city; compact urbanization, urban sprawl; center and periphery; urban density and urban sprawl
3. The social and spatial inequality; social and urban segregation:
- The genesis of the concept of segregation in urban studies
- The segregative processes and its spatial effects: residential mobility and "context effects"
- The processes of segregation in the post-Fordist city: the new urban economies and socioeconomic structure of cities; Housing and social and urban segregation socioterritorial impacts; polarization, fragmentation and urban inequality.