Cidade e Metrópole (not translated)
Code
722081035
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Knwoledge and understanding of the sociological framework city and metropolis;
b) Skills to analyse processes of territorial change, decomposing its actor system, the stakes and the social practices in the relation with the forms of use and with occupation of territories;
c)Ability to communicate sociological knowledge about the theme in a rigorous and meaningfull manner;
d) Ability to carry out informed and critical intervention
Prerequisites
N.A.
Subject matter
1. Introdutory concepts: global city, metropolitanisation and space of flows
2. From the city to the metropolis
3. Global Suburbs
4. Lisbon at the microscope: the Avenida Almirante Reis Case
5. Housing and Habitat
6. Ludification and ludified territories
7. Waterfront Renewal I: theoretical issues
8. Waterfront renweal: the Parquedas Nações case (Lisbon)
9. Presentation of a PhD. dissertation: the domestic culture. Apropriation practices and identity construction.
Bibliography
Sassen, S. (2000), «A new geography of Centres and Margins: Summary and Implications», LeGates and Stout (eds.) The City Reader, Routledge.
Sassen, S. (2006), «Cities and Communities in the global economy» in Brenner et al. (eds.) The Global Cities Reader. Routledge.
Bassand, M. (1997) Métropolisation et Inégalités Sociales, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes.
Castells, M. (2000 ), «European Cities, the Informational Society and the Global Economy», LeGates and Stout (eds.) The City Reader, Routledge.
Wirth, L. (2000) «Urbanism as way of life» in LeGates and Stout (eds.) The City Reader, Routledge.
Harris, R. (2010) «Meaningful types in a world of suburbs» in Mark Clapson, Ray Hutchison (ed.) Suburbanization in Global Society (Research in Urban Sociology, Volume 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Baptista, L. e J.P.Nunes (dirs.) (2005) «Dossier Cidade Lúdica, Cidade Residencial», Fórum Sociológico (FCSH), n.º 13/14.
Teaching method
Lectures with debate of the proposed themes and presentation of specific case-studies by invited researchers.
Evaluation method
Essay about one of the themes in the programm, followed by discussion with the teacher