Empirical research in Urban geography

9 ECTS – offered in the Spring semester

Instructors: Prof. Mirella Loda–Matteo Puttilli–Panagiotis Bourlessas

Part I: Urban theories and definitions; City as social and political space; Urban movements and the right to the city; Urban public space and the quality of life; Research methods in Urban studies.

Part II: An introduction to Human Geography. Bringing to the fore the vital role that spaces and places play in the production and re-production of lifeworlds, the module provide the students with central concepts and tools in order to understand, analyse, deconstruct and reconstruct the complex spatial dynamics which societies and their cultures are produced through.