Urban Social Geography: Contemporary Issues
Key themes in contemporary urban social geography
The course discusses the key themes and trends in contemporary urban social geography. In-class lectures focus on segregation, daily mobility, criminality, suburbanization 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 on own field work 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 2019/2020: Thursdays 9 a.m., room Z1 in Albertov 6
Web page of the course in Moodle.
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Date |
Topic |
Lecturer |
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20.2. |
Introduction to the course, requirements |
Martin Ouředníček Petra Špačková Adela Petrović |
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27.2. |
Prague as an urban laboratory |
Martin Ouředníček |
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5.3. |
Gentrification and inner city |
Petra Špačková |
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12.3. |
Housing estates |
Petra Špačková |
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19.3. |
Residential mobility and segregation |
Martin Ouředníček |
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26.3. |
Test I. |
Adela Petrović |
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2.4. |
Film seminar |
Petra Špačková Adela Petrović |
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9.4. |
Social and demographic continuity and discontinuity of modern Warsaw |
Mikołaj Madurowicz |
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16.4. |
Suburbanisation |
Martin Ouředníček |
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23.4. |
Dean's day, no lecture |
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30.4. |
Residential mobility and residential choice |
Petra Špačková Joanne Hirtzel Marie Horňáková |
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afternoon |
Housing estates field trip |
Petra Špačková |
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7.5. |
Suburban field trip |
Martin Ouředníček |
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14.5. |
no lecture (moved to 30.4. afternoon) |
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21.5. |
Test II. |
Adela Petrović |
Course requirements and evaluation criteria
Basic level
- Total score in tests I and II > 50 %
- Attendance of at least 7 lectures (excluding Introduction), including compulsory attendance of discussion seminars
- 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 brief literature overview
- discussion of methodology
- submission of draft paper
- presentation and discussion of research project at the "USG II conference"
- submission of research paper
Find more information in Moodle.
From lectures: Test
Exercise: Team work
Field trip to Černý Most housing estate:
