SCLG3605 - Urban Transformations: Society and Space

Semester 1, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: David Mark Bray
Phone: +61 2 9114 0970
Email: david.bray@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit explores the processes of urbanisation in the industrial and post-industrial city. It focuses on key sociological concepts and theorisations of the urban experience - community, alienation, class formation, social space, social capital, migration, displacement, suburbanisation, slums, transformations of the built environment and capital accumulation. It also explores the relationship between cities and globalisation in the global north and south and the development of cities and megacities as intensified nodes of global production, consumption and inequality.

Assessments

1x500wd oral tutorial presentation (10%), 1x1500wd critical review (30%), and 1x2500wd research essay (60%)

Textbooks

unit reader will be available through the Copy Centre

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week

Prerequisites

SCLG1001 and SCLG1002

Prohibitions

SCLG3002

Additional Information

This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

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