10 ECTS credits
297 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4014958FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
Registration for this course is allowed if one is registered for the MA Urban Studies.
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
Department
Geography
External partners
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Educational team
Stefan De Corte
Decaan WE (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
24 contact hours Lecture
110 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
60 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

Southern European cities are characterised by a relatively high density, many privatised services, a high proportion of homeowners and of secondary homes, by a rate of growth higher than average and by a deep transformation in its social and economic position in the last years because of the increase of foreigners and the development of services.

The development of social cohesion under the impact of the flux of immigrants and of housing shortage is one of the main challenges to the sustainable and liveable city in Southern Europe. The different welfare system could explain this different model of services and housing. A range of planning tools and public policies (e.g. transport, construction, housing) shall be presented by means of cases that illustrate different scales, geographical situations and urban models. The small and middle size inner city model as well as the seaside tourism city will be addressed. The metropolitan model will be analysed at macro and micro levels in Madrid where most of the fieldwork will take place. Special attention shall be paid to the transversal subjects such as environmental or innovation policies.

Additional info

This course consists of three Course Units:

CompactCityvs. Dispersed City

Selected topics on Urban Environment

Sustainable and Livable City

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

Aims and objectives:

Course unit 1: CompactCityvs. Dispersed City

  • To be reckognise the debate about the compact city and the dispersed city with all its complexities.
  • To identify and assess questions concerning the compact and the dispersed city in fieldwork
  • To reason critically in relation to the subject.
  • To know how to prepare and present assignments related to the subject
  • To organise individual and team work and to manage the time available.

Course unit 2: Selected topics on Urban Environment

  • Students understand the territorial impact of the policies and integral and sectorial tools and development promotion.
  • Students identify and assess questions regarding territorial development in field work.
  • Students care for the environment
  • Students handle information coming from different sources (to look for, classify, integrate and recover).
  • Students organise, plan and manage time
  • Students work in a team

Course unit 3: Sustainable and Livable City

The course aims to promote a general knowledge and practical reflection on urban mobility issues from a sociological and environmental perspective. Technical measures and proposals in urban planning will be examined and searched for.

  • Students can use the methods and techniques of analysis of the environmental and social components and processes in their relation to the territory.
  • Students establish trends and guidelines in the territorial systems based on diagnosis.
  • Students can identify the territorial impact of the policies and integral and sectorial tools and development promotion.
  • Students look for, find, select and deal with the most relevant information (qualitative and quantitative) for territorial and environmental analysis.
  • Students elaborate proposals of territorial character and scale, especially in local and sub-regional contexts.
  • Students identify and assess questions regarding territorial development in fieldwork.
  • Students prepare and present planning and sustainable territory development reports using rigorous techniques.
  • Students develop the skills to care for the environment, to appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Students have the ability for criticism and can tell which information is relevant and which is not.

 

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • examen andere with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written papers

Presentations

Attendance and active participation

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Urban Studies: 4CITIES Classical track