| Course Title and Purpose | 1. Course Title
URBAN IDENTITY IN EUROPE: A SOCIAL CONTEXT |
| 2. Aims of the Course:
Students who take this course will be able:
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To convince students of the diversity of the European urban reality;
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To present conditions in which a global paradigm of urban development emerges;
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To offer definitions of urban identity;
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To emphasize importance of social context in sustainability of urban societies; |
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To
urge students to think deeply and clearly about the uniqueness of the
sociological perspective and how it brings insight to our understanding
of urban issues; |
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To cause students to ruminate on the definition of a sociological and urban sub-field in the term of everyday life. |
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| Course Delivery | 3. Contents:
Course would be divided into 3 groups of issues:
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Urban experiences: Processes of urbanization in Europe; urban history as a European history; Contemporary meanings of urbanity. |
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Urban
particularity: West and the “rest” of urban Europe; Cities in Central
Europe; Cities in Southeastern Europe: Geopolitical myths and the urban
question. |
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Urban
idioms and patterns: Ties between social life and urban footprints;
Urban everyday life and urban patterns: Social-urban aggregates:
streets, squares, open spaces… |
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| 4. Indicative Reading:
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Hamm,
Bernd and P.K. Muttagi, Sustainable Development and the Future of
Cities, Centre for European Studies,Trier and Oxford & IBH Publ.,
New Delhi, 1998. |
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Blanquart, Paul, Une historie de la ville: pour reprenser la société, La Découverte/Poche, Paris, 1998. |
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Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped, Thames and Hudson, London, 1991. |
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Nyström, Louise (ed.), City and Culture, The Swedish Urban Env. Council, Stockholm, 1999. |
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Kostof, Spiro,The City Assembled, Thames and Hudson, London, 1992. |
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| 5. Learning and Teaching Methods:
Total Contact Hours:
two contact hours a week in a 14 weeks semester: total 28
Range of other Learning Methods:
Independent learning and directed reading
Total Study Hours: 150 |
| Course Assessment | 6. Course Learning Outcomes:
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Awareness of historical founding of urban societies in Europe
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Awareness of different urban areas in Europe |
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Knowledge about elements of urban identity
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Knowledge about sociological “way of reading” of urban everyday life |
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7. Assessment Methods:
Number, Type and Weighting of Elements:
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final paper of 16-20 pages, 2200 signs per page, (60%) |
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oral exam/discussion of final paper (40%) |
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the topic of the final paper will be determined during the course
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| Course Management |
8. Credit Points and Duration:
8 credit points (ECTS); duration of the course is one semester
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9. Contact Person:
Dr Ljubinko Pušić
E-mail: pusic@eunet.yu
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