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Undergraduate Course: Divided Cities (GEGR10106)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course explores the everday geographies of cities through the concept of encounter. Questioning how we understand cities, the course introduces diverse theoretical approaches to teh city and examiners different modes of researching and representing cities. Using Urban examples as diverse as Bradford and Baghdad, the course is organised around lectures and discussions that address 3 key conceptual concerns: understanding the everyday sociality of cities (the spaces of encounterand mundane interaction that mak up so much of urban life); grasping the emotional and affective life of cities (the embodied experiences of inhabiting and using urban spaces); and appreciating the urban materialities (the often overlooked things, technologies, natures, and infrastructure that are a part of every day life in cities). These conceptual concerns then form the basis for examining a series of important issues facing contemporary cities including; urban multiculture and living with difference; segregation and the sorting of bodies in cities; fear and the city; terrorism and wounded cities.
Course description 1. Everyday Life in the City
2. Urban Materialities
3. Urban Affects
4. Knowing Cities
5. Everyday Edinburgh
6. Urban Multiculture: Bradford
7. City of Walls: Sao Paulo and Baghdad
8. Haunted Cities: Berlin
9. Urban Ruins: Detroit
10. Wounded Cities: London
11. Revision Lecture

In weeks 2, 4, 6 and 9 there will also be a film screening after the lectures.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  44
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Class Assessment: As outlined in course handbook

Degree Assessment: One 2,000 word essay (40%)plus One examination (60%)
Overall mark for the course (ie degree coursework and examinations) of at least 40
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. To provide students with a thorough knowledge of the city
  2. To introduce students to a range of different ways of knowing the city
  3. To make students aware of how knowledge and understanding of the city is developed through different research methods and representation
  4. To provide a critical understanding of key concepts including encounters, sociality, emotions, materiality
  5. To develop students understanding of a number of substantive, current issues affecting everyday urban life using case studies from cities around the world
Reading List
1. Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (2002). Cities: Re-imagining the Urban. Cambridge: Polity Press.
2. de Certeau, M. (1984). ¿Walking in the City¿ in The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp.91-110.
3. Hubbard, P. (2006) City. London: Routledge.
4. Latham, A., McCormack, D., McNamara, K., and McNeill, D. (2009). Key Concepts in Urban Geography. London: Sage.
5. Lefebvre, H. (1996). Writings on Cities. (Oxford: Blackwell).
6. Pile, S. (2005). Real Cities. London: Sage.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Tom Slater
Tel:
Email: Jamie.Morton@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kirsty Allan
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
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