Code
GEO 606
Category
Optional - Compulsory
ECTS
7,5
Hour per Week
3
E-services
e-class
Instructors
Chorianopoulos I.
Learning Outcomes
Το μάθημα προσεγγίζει κριτικά τον αστικό χώρο και το αστικό σχεδιασμό, ακολουθώντας τον εξελισσόμενο ρόλο της πόλης και των συνακόλουθων συγκροτημένων παρεμβάσεων στο αστικό χώρο κατά τους δύο τελευταίους αιώνες. Κατά τη διάρκεια του μαθήματος οι μεταπτυχιακοί/ες φοιτητές/τριες θα εξοικειωθούν με κομβικές χωρικές/σχεδιαστικές έννοιες, διαδικασίες, καθώς και με συγκεκριμένες σύγχρονες πολιτικές αστικής παρέμβασης τόσο από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση όσο και από την Ελλάδα, εμπεδώνοντας τη θεωρία και κατανοώντας την πόλη ως αντικείμενο πολιτικής.
General Competences
- Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using appropriate technologies
- Independent and group work
- Work in an interdisciplinary environment
- Respect for the natural environment
- Encouraging free, creative and deductive thinking
Course Content
The course follows the development of the Western city and urban policy from the early modern period, focusing on the contemporary context of neoliberal urban restructuring.
In the first part of the course, key urban/design concepts and processes are examined, such as the relationship between urbanization and industrialization, the life cycle of cities, and urban morphology. In the second part of the course, the ‘dominant’ examples of management and governance of the contemporary ‘global’ and ‘competitive’ city are analyzed, as well as the critiques that have been directed at them. The globalized economic reality, it is argued, is internalized and coordinated locally, and is accompanied by a shift in urban policy toward supporting ‘competitiveness’, undermining the goal of balanced development and the ‘just city’.
Within this framework, the course explores urban policies promoted by the EU, as well as the ability of Greek cities to respond to or challenge new spatial restructurings and challenges. Key concepts such as urban sprawl (form), re-scaling (policy structure), partnership governance, and the urbanization of austerity are discussed through specific examples, gradually focusing on the Greek context.
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- Brenner, N. (2004) Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in Western Europe, 1960–2000. Review of International Political Economy 11.3, 447–88.
- Chorianopoulos I. Pagonis, T., Koukoulas, S. Drymoniti, S. (2010) Planning, competitiveness and sprawl in the Mediterranean city: the case of Athens. Cities, 27(4): 249-259.
- Chorianopoulos, I. (2008) Institutional responses to EU challenges: attempting to articulate a local regulatory scale in Greece. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32(2): 324-343.
- Chorianopoulos, I. (2012) State spatial restructuring in Greece: Forced rescaling, unresponsive localities. European Urban and Regional Studies, 19(4): 331-348.
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- Chorianopoulos, G., & Pagonis, A. (2020). Trajectories of the Mediterranean City: Urbanity, Planning, and Governance. Athens: Kritiki.