City and Citizenship

Recommended Prerequisites

No recommended prerequesites beyond the general conditions for admission to the course.

Teaching Methods

Along with the regular lectures to expose the syllabus of the curricular unit, students should actively participate in discussions, make oral presentations and moderate one working session. Videos, literary documents, and readings from various disciplinary backgrounds are subject to interpretation, accompanied by short writen texts   (400-800 words) and extended commments. They all help students to formulate the broad idea for the final essay (3,000 to 5,000 words) they are supposed to write by the end of the semester and is the main element of the assessement.     

Learning Outcomes

The study unit aims to provide training on issues related to modern urban condition and the emerging socio-economic dynamics. It is expected that the student is able to:

I. Know and articulate the main historical, political and social urban phenomenon;

II. Apply the methodological tools for the analysis of urban life;

III. critically understand the processes of democracy and governance of cities;

IV. Know and articulate the main topics and concepts of urban studies.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction: the world of cities

2. City and Citizenship

3. Social theory and the city I: From Simmel to Chicago

4. Social Theory and the City II:  from Chicago to the post-metropolis

5. Leaving the modern city?

6. Interpreting the modern city

7. Urban Sociabilities, Identities and Territories

8. “Other Cities”: A theoretical reform?

9. The Sensous City

10. The end of the city or the post-city? 

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos José Cândido Guerreiro Fortuna

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

DIÁLOGOS urbanos. Org. C. Fortuna, R. P. Leite. Coimbra: Almedina, 2013.

ENDLESS (The) city. Ed. R. Burdett, D. Sudjic. London: Phaidon Press, 2007.

FORTUNA, C.- In praise of other views. Berlin: Instituto Ibero-Americano, 2012.

FORTUNA, C. et al – Cidade e Espetáculo. São Paulo, EDUC, 2012.

GRAHAM, S.- Cities under siege. London: Verso, 2011.

HARVEY, D.- Rebel cities. London: Verso, 2013.

LANDRY, C.- The art of city-making. London, Earthscan, 2007.

SASSEN, S - Territory, authority, rights: from medieval to global assemblages. Princeton: Princeton Univ.Press, 2006.

SHORT, J. R. - Urban theory: a critical assessment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

SPACES of neoliberalism. Ed. N. Brenner, N. Theodore. Malden: Blackwell, 2008.

TONKISS, F. - Space, the city and social theory. Repr.. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.

ZUKIN, S. - Naked city. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.