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Content: The module will explore the possibilities for economic, social and spatial change of cities in the wider context of development and globalisation. To better understand the challenges facing urban development, the roles, relations, and actions of actors in civil society and the public and private sectors will be examined in theory and practice. The institutional and organisational frameworks in which they operate will be examined, while investigating access to and control over financial, informational, human and physical resources in the context of contemporary urban development planning practice.

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Teaching delivery: This module is taught across two terms of nine weekly sessions in each term. In the first term (led by Colin Marx), the module will use urban land as an entry point from which to examine urban socio-spatial relations and dynamics in cities within the context of formulating progressive interventions. In addressing different aspects of urban land, the module will draw on different contemporary theories to sharpen the debates and highlight taken-for-granted assumptions that characterise the discourses and practices of planning for urban poor people in cities in developing countries. The aim is to reframe debates in which to situate activism and advocacy around planning and governance in the context of a contemporary critical view of 鈥榯he urban鈥�.

In the second term (led by Jorge Fiori) the module zooms out and explores, from a theoretical and historical perspective, the broader processes of urban transformation in the context of internationalisation of the world economy. Shifting scales, it explores the articulation of social and spatial changes in cities and the logic of globalisation of the last few decades, paying particular attention to the reflection of that in terms of changing systems of urban governance. The term uses the growing informalisation of cities and of the world economy as an entry point to reflect on the changing nature of cities and the challenges for urban policy and planning.

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Indicative topics: In the first term, indicative topics include strategies for engaging with property rights, urban land markets, and formal land use planning to advance struggles for spatial justice.

In the second term, indicative topics are organised according to five 鈥榟istorical periods鈥� which will discuss how ideas, contexts, and concepts have changed over the last century. The asynchronous activities will allow students to critically engage with debates, cases, and practices in order to deepen the contents discussed in class.

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Module Objectives: The objective of the module is to increase knowledge and understanding of the economic, social, and spatial processes of urban development in global processes, and their implications for urban development policy and planning, at the same time as examining the theoretical and practical aspects of change in institutional and relations for a more just urban development and of the circumstances and actions that might lead to it.

On completion, the intention is that students will have acquired:

• Knowledge and understanding of socio-economic and physical global and local processes in urban development, and how they relate to wider urban development policy and planning

• Knowledge and understanding of the roles, relations, and actions of actors in civil society and the public and private sectors in the processes of urban development

• Knowledge and understanding of institutional and organisational arrangements for urban development which can address social justice, and their application in the assessment of urban development practice

• Knowledge and understanding of financial, informational, human and physical resources, and their planning and management by various actors in urban development practice听
• Greater capacity to develop analytical and critical arguments on the basis of theory and empirical evidence in the field of urban development planning.
• Greater capacity to produce well-supported proposals for a more socially just urban development.

Recommended readings:

First term:

Lambert R (2021) Land Trafficking and the Fertile Spaces of Legality. International journal of urban and regional research 45(1): 21-38.

Marx, C, and E Kelling. (2018) "Knowing urban informalities."听 Urban Studies听 doi: 10.1177/0042098018770848.听

Yacobi H and Milner E (2022) Planning, land ownership, and settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies. DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040321.听

Second term:

Sandercock, L. (1998) Chapter 1: 鈥淎 Death Foretold: A Chronicle of Modernist Planning鈥�, from Sandercock, L. Towards Cosmopolis: planning for multicultural cities, London: Wiley.

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Murray, M. (2017). Chapter 8: An Urbanism of Exception, in Murray, M. The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in The Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: University Printing House, pp. 301-314. (reading available online 鈥� added to list).

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Borja, J. and Castells, M. (1997) Chapter 6 鈥淯rban Policies in Globalization鈥� and Chapter 7 鈥淪trategic Plans and Metropolitan Projects鈥�, Local and Global: Management of cities in the Information Age, London: Earthscan, pp. 119-180.

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Frediani, A.A. and Coci帽a, C. (2019). 鈥楶articipation as planning鈥�: strategies from the South to challenge the limits of planning. Built Environment, Vol 45, No. 2, pp. 143-161. (reading available online 鈥� added to list).

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Fiori, J. (2014). 鈥淚nformal City: Design as Political Engagement鈥�, in Verebes, T. (ed.), Masterplanning the adaptive city: computational urbanism in the twenty-first century, London: Routeldge, pp. 40鈥�47.

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Additional costs: None

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Module tutors: Colin Marx and Jorge Fiori

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