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The core aims of the module are to develop student skills to building understanding of an unfamiliarÌýurban context, through a critical engagement with existing urban theory, and an openness toÌýdeveloping insights based on scholarship drawn from specific urban contexts and regions. StudentsÌýwill have the opportunity to acquire detailed knowledge of and insight into urbanisation and urbanÌýexperiences of a selection of urban contexts in different regions and will explore the potential for theÌýdecolonisation of urban knowledge. The course will involve active engagement with the history andÌýurban challenges of one or more partner cities (for example, Johannesburg), as well as selectedÌýother cases. Elements of the course will be delivered collaboratively with partner city staff andÌýstudents. Themes will be drawn from dominant themes identified in the existing scholarship on theÌýpartner cities (such as exclusion, inequality, land, city-regions, extended urbanisation, migration,Ìýlarge-scale urban developments, policy learning, cultural politics and urban design and planningÌýhistories), as well as from contemporary policy challenges, urban political issues, artistic practice andÌýdesign and planning innovations. A wide variety of sources will be assembled and interrogated toÌýbuild insights on the selected cities through workshops and studio activities, including academic andÌýpolicy sources, empirical studies, data analysis, maps, visual sources. The course will support andÌýfeed directly into the immersive experience or field-trip based module, “City Co-lab".