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Last update: PhDr. Martina Tůmová, Ph.D. (18.09.2023)
Readings and detailed information on the course are available in Moodle: http://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=736. |
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Last update: RNDr. Jana Rubešová, Ph.D. (01.06.2023)
KAPLAN, D., WHEELER, J., HOLLOWAY, S. (2003): Urban Geography. New York: Wiley Publishers. |
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Last update: RNDr. Jana Rubešová, Ph.D. (01.06.2023)
Basic level: Total score in tests I and II > 50 % Attendance of at least 7 lectures, including compulsory attendance of discussion seminars with tests 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 Exam - written essay |
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Last update: RNDr. Jana Rubešová, Ph.D. (01.06.2023)
1. Introduction to the course - Basic information about course. Course requirements and evaluation criteria. 2. How to study urban geography - Differentiated perspectives on urban social environments, epistemology, main theoretical approaches, urban journals, literature, development of the discipline and the context. 3. Classical urban theories - Classical urban theories; industrialization and urbanization; Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft; mechanical and organic solidarity; urban personality 4. Theories of urbanisation - Theories of urbanisation, differential theories of urban origin; definition of urbanisation; urban revolution; attributes of urban environment; structure of pre-industrial and industrial city, stages and types of urban processes. 5. Chicago school of urban sociology - Social ecology approach; organisation of urban research at the Chicago University; quantitative and qualitative research methods; space and place in urban studies. 6. Radical political economy - Neomarxist approaches, circuits of capital, social justice 7. Theory of structuration and social environment - Social environment, social climate, social space, social structure, structuration, routine 8. Humanistic approach - life-world, taken for granted world, action and agency, experience and identity, social nature of urban life, space and place, sense of place, home/hometown/homeland, meaning of urban places, humanistic geography today 9. Postmodern urban geography - Condition of postmodernity (Harvey), postmodern urbanism and Los Angeles school (Dear, Flusty), postmetropolis (Soja), edge cities (Garreau). 10. Urban planning - Urban models, urban planning principles, cities for people, post-industrial city, new urbanism 11. Post-socialist paradigm and relevancy of Western theories for post-socialist city 12. Time geography in urban research - Human activities in time-space, spatial mobility, daily and life trajectories, accessibility, prism, city and everyday life, mobile phone data. 13. Discussion seminar |