For attending students: lecture notes on Moodle
For non-attending students:
- Macionis J.J., Parrillo V.N., Prospettive urbane, Person, MIlano, 2014: capp. 1,2, 4, 7, 10, 11
- Curtis S., Global Cities and Global order, Oxford University Press, Oxfors, 2016, capp. 2,4,5
- The world's cities in 2018, Data booklet https://www.un-ilibrary.org/human-settlements-and-urban-issues/the-world-s-cities-in-2018_c93f4dc6-en
Learning Objectives
Transmit the basic information on:
- the social and poltical transformations related to the new forms of urbanization;
- the tradition of urban sociology and the recent disciplinary proposals of analytical tools
Basic train to the use of this knowledge for the construction of research designs
Prerequisites
No one
Teaching Methods
Lectures and integrative workshop exercises
Type of Assessment
Oral examination verifying:
a) the acquired knowledge, on the social transformations related to global urbanization, on the urban sociology tradition and most recent analytical tools;
b) the capacity to use them to build research designs.
To the attending students will be proposed exercises concluding in written reports, valued from 0 to 10. The oral examination on the institutional programme (lecture notes) will be hence valued frm 0 to 20.
Course program
Introduction to the analysis of the social changes related to the current globalized forms of urbanization.
1. The "second urban revolution": Urbannization and Urbanism in the XXI century
Migration towards the city, intra and inter-national
The mega-city: formal and social models
Forms of urban sprawl
2. Cities in the economic arena:
Global cities and world-system
To describe urban hierarchies: the new dominant cities
Cities and global finance
The hub city
The creative city
The city and its landscape and environmental resources
3. Cities in the political arena
Cities as competitive actors
International organizations urban policies
The EU urban policies
Transnational urban movements
Cities in the political career
City and civicness
4. Cities in the legal arena
The city as rights provider
Searching new managing configurations: the metropolitan cities
Redefining borders: fusions and forma of sectorial cooperation
Transborder cities
Cities networks
5. Cities in the cultural arena
Urbanism and rurbanism today
Archistar and cities
Cities and and their heritage
Urban public spaces in the Information Age
Migrants in the City
Governing the multi-cultural city