The City and Metropolitan Spaces
Code: 44464 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4317520 Territorial Studies and Planning | OB | 0 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Carles Donat Muñoz
- Email:
- carles.donat@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Teachers
- Antonio Lopez Gay
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objective of the module is to provide students with critical instruments to analyze contemporary urbanization processes, specifically for cities and metropolitan areas. The students will be offered the instruments to understand the city as a socio-spatial configuration resulting from the demographic, economic, environmental, cultural and political dynamics of contemporary societies. This compulsory module is part of the master's core teachings along with the Territorial Planning and Geographic information systems, planning and landscape modules and in coordination with the Advanced Themes module. The aim of the core teachings is to provide students with conceptual and practical skills for the design and writing of territorial Planning instruments. To do this, a practical exercise will be carried out, consisting in recognizing and identifying the urban, social and environmental characteristics of certain public spaces and the preparation of proposals for the management of these spaces.
Learning Outcomes
- CA01 (Competence) Design appropriate management models for metropolitan spaces.
- CA02 (Competence) Learn how the principles of ecological, social and economic sustainability and the gender perspective are applied and how they evolve.
- CA03 (Competence) Value knowledge of citizen participation mechanisms used for planning.
- KA01 (Knowledge) Understand the utility of innovative public policies for territorial and urban dynamics, city management and metropolitan spaces.
- KA02 (Knowledge) Understand how demographic dynamics and settlement structures interact with urban demands.
- KA03 (Knowledge) Identify social gender inequalities on the basis of spatial and territorial forecasts.
- KA36 (Knowledge) Map public spaces using territorial information provided by local government.
- SA01 (Skill) Link the distribution and spatial dynamics of human activity to urban planning and city systems.
- SA02 (Skill) Explore ways of planning based on the gender perspective.
Content
1. The city. Definition, morphology, and the challenge of its delimitation
2. The process of urbanization through urban fabrics
3. The urban population
4. Rent of urban land. An essential element for the configuration of cities
5. Housing. Access, tenure, and challenges
6. Socioeconomic segregation and residential mobility
7. Gentrification, displacement and substitution of the population
8. Social groups, urban stakeholders, and social movements
9. The government of the city. Administrative fragmentation, actors, competences, and resources
10. Tourism and transnational gentrification.
11. The transformation of a neighborhood based on data analysis. The case of Sant Antoni in Barcelona.
Methodology
- Teaching expositions.
- Individualized and group tutorials.
- Debates in the classroom.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Discussion at the seminar | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Teacher's leassons | 25 | 1 | |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Preparation of the personal report | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Preparation of the plan's memory | 25 | 1 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Carry out the individual report | 15 | 0.6 | |
| Carry out the plan's memory | 70 | 2.8 |
Assessment
This subject/module does not incorporate single assessment.
- Attendance and active participation in face-to-face sessions: 10% (not subject to re-evaluation)
- Elaboration of assessment work
- Core work (in group): 50%
- Core work oral presentation: 15%
- Individual module exercise: 25%
Core work is not subject to re-evaluation. In the event that there is more than one person with the maximum vote, the teaching staff reserves the right to request an additional test to be eligible for the High Honors.
VERY IMPORTANT: Total or partial plagiary of any of the exercises will automatically be considered "fail" (0)
for the plagiarized item. Plagiary is copying one or more sentences from unidentified sources, presenting it as
original work (THIS INCLUDES COPYING PHRASES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND
ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATION TO A TEXT WHICH IS PRESENTED AS ORIGINAL). Plagiarism
is a serious offense. Students must learn to respect the intellectual property of others, identifying any source
they may use, and take responsibility for the originality and authenticity of the texts they produce.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core work oral presentation | 15 | 0.5 | 0.02 | |
| Presentation of the module's individual report | 85 | 4.5 | 0.18 | CA01, CA02, CA03, KA01, KA02, KA03, KA36, SA01, SA02 |
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