TRP111 Cities

Aims/Description: The main aim of Cities is to introduce you to our urban condition in a global context. Within this broad aim we will connect you to a range of key issues in contemporary urban studies and help you to understand more about the roots of urban problems and questions of social inequality and social justice within that context. This a general course that aims to develop an understanding of urban social life, economies, political systems, disorder and a range of other themes in an international context.

Staff Contact: Rowland Atkinson

Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study

Assessment: Course work

Information on the department responsible for this unit (Urban Studies and Planning):

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