Cities and Metropoles

Code:

GEOGR081

Acronym:

CM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Geography

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geography
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Geography

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
GEOGR	42	study plan	2	-	6	41	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. Understand and apply the dominant theories and concepts of urban geography , social geography and economical geography .


2. Build and deepen a systemic multi-scale thinking structure on urban and metropolitan processes.


3. Understand the evolution of territorial models ( urban-metropolitan ), as well as inequalities and regional disparities.


4.  Acquire and develop research skills , actions and communications, reinforcing the conceptual learning and territorial intervention capacity, into a context of big challenges and global changes.

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Domain theories and concepts relating to urban development processes and metroplitano growth


2.      Development of a reflective attitude and integrative


3.      Articulate different scales of analysis - global, metropolitan and intra-urban strengthening, through examples, a systemic view, multiscale and multidimensional


4. Strengthen the learning (conceptual and methodological), as well as, the exploitation of geography information sources.


5.      Development of individual and group work capacit


6.      Developing the capacity of oral and written expression.


7.      Development the learning skills and autonomy.


8.      Development the knowledge capacity through the use of a foreign language.

Working method

Presencial

Program

 I. CONTEMPORARY CITY

The urban expansion 
The end of the modern city
The city, the individual and society

II. RESIDENTIAL FORMS AND WAYS OF LIVING

Changes in family structure
New ways of life
The individual houses and the configuration of the subdivisions in the peripheries
The public offer and the private offer
Reflect the city: functions and social structure

III. ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

Trade and tourism in the centers
The multifunctional peripheral centralities
From factories to coworking centers
From business areas to technopoles
From cultural offer to leisure services

IV. SERVICES OF GENERAL INTEREST
Collective use equipment networks
Demographic changes and new demands
Digitization and forms of provision
The public space of cities
The 15-minute city

V. ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Agriculture and food
Forest systems
Gardens and urban parks

VI. FROM PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL NETWORKS
Railroad marks
From the car era to smooth mobility
The new digital accessibility
Smat cities

VII. TERRITORIAL PROJECT

Multiscale planning
Sort the metropolitan macro-structure
Sort disparities

Mandatory literature

ASCHER, F.; La société hypermoderne : Ces événements nous dépassent, feignons d'en être les organisateur, Editions de l'Aube, 2005. ISBN: 978-2752601193
Brenner, N., Marcuse, P. , Mayer, M. (Eds.); Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City , Routledge;, 2011. ISBN: 978-0415601788
FERNANDES, Mário Gonçalves; O estudo da morfologia urbana em Portugal, XII Colóquio Ibérico de Geografia, , APG/FLUP, 2008
FONT, A.; VECSLIR; Nuevas geografias de la producción y el consumo en la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona, Revista Electrónica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales, Barcelona, Universidade de Barcelona,vol. XII, num. 270 (107), 2008
Harvey, David; Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution , Verso, 2013. ISBN: 978-1781680742
Jacobs, Jane; The^death and life of great cities. ISBN: 0-679-60047-7
Nirmala Rao,; Cities in Transition: Growth, Change and Governance in Six Metropolitan Areas , Routledge; 1 edition , 2007. ISBN: 978-0415329026
Knieling, Jörg; Othengrafen, Frank (Eds.); Cities in Crisis, Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9781138850026
Secchi, Bernardo ; La ville du vingtième siècle, Recherches , 2009. ISBN: 978-2862220642
Webber, Andrew; Wilson, Emma (Eds.) ; Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis, Wallflower Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1905674312
LeGates, Richard T. & Stout, Frederic ; The City Reader, Routledge , 2015. ISBN: 9781315748504

Complementary Bibliography

Fainstein, Susan S.; The Just City, Cornell University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0801476907
Shiller, Robert J.; Housing Bubbles Are Few and Far Between , The New Your Times - Economic View, 5 FEV., 2011
Harvey, David; Social Justice and the City (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation, University of Georgia Press; Revised edition, 2009. ISBN: 978-0820334035
Domingues, A.; Cidade e Democracia 30 Anos Transformação Urbana em Portugal, Argumentum, 2006. ISBN: 9789728479398

Comments from the literature

Other documents supporting classes:


Observatório das metrópoles: http://web.observatoriodasmetropoles.net/

Plataforma urbana:  http://www.plataformaurbana.cl/

Cities (Urban Audit) - Database - Eurostat

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/cities/data/database

Eurobarometer 419: Quality of Life in European Cities

https://data.europa.eu/euodp/data/dataset/S2070_419_ENG

Urbact Driving chenge for better cities

https://urbact.eu/good-practices/home

Teaching methods and learning activities

keywords

Social sciences > Geography > Human geography

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	71,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho de investigação	50,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation components provided in the course are:

1. Test about the theoretical content of the course program (50% of the final grade).

2. Presentation and discussion of a working group on urban scale, involving the collection and processing of information, fieldwork, and report writing (50% of the final grade).

The realization of the two elements of evaluation is mandatory.

Depending on the number of students may be adopted others modes of assessment to consult with students in 1st class.

To obtain the approval in the course no component can register rating lower than 7.5 points.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In exceptional situations, the component work described above in 2 may be replaced by the completion of a specific exam.

Classification improvement

The student can make an appeal through a new working group and / or a written test at the appel time.