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This module will give you a range of basic and intermediate level skills across a number of industry standard software packages. These skills are...

Computing for the Built Environment (BCPM0059)

This module will introduce students to the state of the art in global urban studies, focussing on theoretical and related methodological debates...

Global Urbanism: Theory and Politics (BARC0190)

This module will introduce students to the state of the art in global urban studies, focussing on theoretical and related methodological debates concerning the nature of global urbanisation. Overarching themes will be: how understandings of the urban must be produced across diverse urban experiences; the varied processes of urbanisation and globalisation which shape distinctive urban outcomes across the globe. The syllabus will cover approaches such as Planetary Urbanisation, Comparative Urbanism, Regional approaches, urban specificity, developmental approaches, feminist, black and indigenous urban studies. The course will draw on a wide scholarship from different urban regions. Different theoretical perspectives vary in their understandings of how conceptualisations of global urbanisation can emerge across diverse and distinctive urban experiences; and how difference and diversity are articulated within urban contexts. Critical engagement with theoretical traditions in urban studies will inform in-depth analyses of the power relations and politics of the circulation of global urban knowledge in shaping urbanisation processes. Close attention will be given to the role of different transnational and locally embedded urban actors shaping circulating concepts and theory. Critical attention will be given to how urban scholars and practitioners are implicated in the circulations of knowledge in global urban design, policy and development. Wider insights on the power relations and political actors shaping urban developments in different contexts will follow.

This module has been established to ensure that students can write at Masters level and can analyse texts to a sufficient depth as to establish relevant...