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Urban Transformations: Society and Space

SCLG3605

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.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Senior

Credit points: 6

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: SCLG3605

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: Yes

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