CITIES AND GLOBALIZATION
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: LUCA RUGGIEROExpected Learning Outcomes
- Acquiring knowledge: the students will acquire theoretical-methodological skills in the field of urban geography to interpret and deconstruct global forces occurring in urban contexts;
- Making judgments: the students will be able to critically evaluate the complex tangle of global/local forces occurring in cities;
- Developing Communication skills: the students will be able to transfer to others, with a full command of technical language, information and assessments about the relationship between cities and globalization;
- Learning skills: at the end of the course students will have gained the necessary knowledge to deepen and integrate theoretical concepts with practical skills for a critical analysis of globalization dynamics that influence and/or emerge from urban contexts.
Course Structure
Students are taught through lectures, seminars, class discussions, case
study analysis (also based on multimedia material), fieldworks. Students
are exposed to various modes of inter-personal communications and
collaborative teamwork. All students are expected to engage in class
discussion.
Required Prerequisites
No particular preliminary knowledge is required
Attendance of Lessons
In class
Detailed Course Content
The course will explore globalization as a material phenomenon and as a
political project using cities as unit of analysis. It will consider the
new global interconnections, globalization and the creation of new
tensions and divisions as well as new forms of integration. Giving
particular emphasis 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
Text: Rossi U., Vanolo A., Urban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective. London: Sage.
A selection of scientific and newspaper articles will be provided during the course| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossi U. and Vanolo A. | Urban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective | Sage | 2011 | 9780857028846 |
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Key Issues and Themes. What is a City? Globalization and the Urban Experience | |
| 2 | Urban Development and the Politics of Representation. From Fordism to post-Fordism reinventing cities in a context of economic transition | |
| 3 | Making Culture Work: The Rise of The Creative City | |
| 4 | The rise of neoliberalism | |
| 5 | The practice of urban neoliberalism | |
| 6 | Gentrification, global processes and local impacts | |
| 7 | Politics as contestation |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral exam
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Urban neoliberalism
Gentrification processes
Role of curlture in the development strategies of cities
Gentrification as global urban strategy
Global cities and urban hierarchies