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Course description of URBA-H-610 [version française]

Title

Urban Sociology


Lecturer

Mme Françoise NOEL



Prerequisites

None


Objective

Explaining the contribution of urban sociology to demonstrate and to understand the different logics sustaining the current development of European cities. Providing a set of concepts and analysis to give to students the capability to make a critical analysis of the urban development. This analysis is based on a view of a reciprocal relationship between the evolution of the city and the major social, economical and cultural changes


Contents

Relationships between city and social phenomena  Common sociological characteristics shared by de cities and their development (interactions, social heterogeneity, centrality, political dimension...)  Some notions in sociology of space  Main theoretical approaches of the city  Current development of cities: relation between social change and urban change (change of ways of life, mobility, metropolisation, impacts of globalisation, change in urban hierarchies...)


Bibliography

CHADOIN, O., La ville des individus, Paris, l'Harmattan, Coll. "Villes et Entreprises", 2004. GRAFMEYER, Y., Sociologie urbaine, Nathan, Paris, 1994. GRAFMEYER, Y.,JOSEPH, I., L'école de Chicago: Naissance de l'écologie urbaine, Aubier, Montaigne, Champ urbain, Paris, 1984. LEFEBVRE, H., La production de l'espace, Anthropos, Paris, 1974


Campus and term(s)

Campus du Solbosch, 1st term


Teaching methods

Ex cathedra learning, presented under PowerPoint and a syllabus published by University Press. It includes a bibliography. The reading of a book is required or recommended according to the student's curriculum, course taught in French


Assessment

Written examination


ECTS

total: 2 ECTS (théorie: 2)

The ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credit is a measure of the student workload for each activity associated with a course. Conventionally, one ECTS credit represents 24h of work.


Course thaught in

Académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles:


URBA-H-610

URBA6-P: master complémentaire en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire - année unique, option restauration du patrimoine (compulsory)

URBA6-R: master complémentaire en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire - année unique, option rénovation urbaine (compulsory)

URBA6-U: master complémentaire en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire - année unique, option urbanisme et aménagement (compulsory)




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