GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICA E POLITICA
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Luca Ruggiero
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-GGR/02 - Economic and political geography
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
ENGLISH VERSION
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-GGR/02 - Economic and political geography
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
ENGLISH VERSION
Course Structure
Frontal Lectures, presentations and lectures aimed at stimulating interaction and discussion with the students
Detailed Course Content
Images and representation of cities in their development strategies. Culture, creativity and technology as new urban development paradigms.
Globalization as a material phenomenon and as a political project, the new global interconnections, globalization and the creation of new tensions and divisions as well as new forms of integration. Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the relationship between cities and globalization. The course tackles questions regarding cities considered both as actors of globalization and places where globalization takes place.
Textbook Information
A. Vanolo e U. Rossi (2010) Geografia Politica Urbana. Editori Laterza