Urban Social Geography: Contemporary Issues

The course discusses the key themes and trends in contemporary urban social geography. In-class lectures focus on segregation, daily mobility, criminality, suburbanisation and other topics, allowing to compare research from Prague with other European cities. The course also offers two field trips (to a housing estate and a suburb of Prague), on which the students' work is based. The emphasis of the course is on reading and discussion as well as its own fieldwork and its presentation. Participation and co-operation of Czech and Erasmus, as well as urban geographers and students of other disciplines, is encouraged, giving the opportunity for networking and exchange of ideas across countries and fields of study. Completion of previous courses in urban geography is not required.

 

Summer term 2020/2021: Thursdays 9 am, room Z1 in Albertov 6

Web page of the course in  Moodle .

 

Date	Topic	Lecturer
18.02.	Introduction to the course, requirements	Martin Ouředníček, Petra Špačková, Adela Petrović
25.02.	Prague as an urban laboratory	Martin Ouředníček
04.03.	Housing and segregation	Martin Ouředníček
11.03.	Residential mobility and residential choice	Petra Špačková, Marie Horňáková
18.03.	Foreigners in the city	Ivana Křižková
25.03.	Test I. Gentrification and inner city	Adela Petrović, Petra Špačková
01.04.	Crime and the city	Jana Jíchová
08.04.	Housing estates	Petra Špačková
15.04.	Housing estates field trip	Petra Špačková
22.04.	Dean's day
29.04.	Suburbanisation	Martin Ouředníček
06.05.	Suburban field trip	Martin Ouředníček
TBA	Test II.	Adela Petrović

Basic level
Course requirements and evaluation criteria 

• Total score in tests I and II> 50%
• Attendance at least 7 lectures
• Timely submission of at least 6 pre-class assignments (submitted via Moodle, annotation of required reading + answers to all questions suggested in Moodle)

Exam

• Same conditions as for basic level plus:
• Activity and discussion of required readings in class
• Research Project  (in pairs)

• discussion of research questions and literature review
• discussion of methodology
• Submission of draft paper
• presentation and discussion of the research project at the "USG II conference"
• Submission of research paper

 

Find more information in Moodle .

Lectures: Test

 

Team work

 

 Field trip to Cerny Most