Code
GEO 604
Category
Optional - Compulsory
ECTS
7,5
Hour per Week
3
E-services
e-class
Instructors
Petropoulou Chr.
Learning Outcomes
The course critically approaches spatial planning by focusing on the role of actors in the evolution of ideas. Upon completion of the course, postgraduate students are expected to recognize the role of actors and analyze the influences that social movements have had on spatial planning, especially those that have placed the "right to the city", the "common goods" and the "well-being" at the center of their demands.
General Competences
- Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using appropriate technologies
- Adapting to new situations
- Independent work
- Work in an international environment
- Work in an interdisciplinary environment
- Generation of new research ideas
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Respect for the natural environment
- Demonstration of social, professional, and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Encouraging free, creative and deductive thinking
Course Content
Initially, a brief historical overview of the history of cities and spatial planning in Europe and other regions of the world is given, as well as the formation of ideas in Geography. Then, the postgraduate students analyze the contemporary trends of metropolitanization and the neoliberal policies of “accumulation through deprivation” and “urban competition”, focusing on contemporary social and ecological phenomena in different cities and regions of the world. Finally, they focus on urban and regional collectives, actions and social movements that, through their action, change the meaning of space.
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