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| GEOG2009-1 | Sporck Chair
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| Duration : | 15h Th |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 1 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, didactic approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 1 |
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| Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en développement territorial et géomatique, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 1 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, specialized approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 1 |
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| Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en géomorphologie, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 1 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation | | Toute l'année | | 1 |
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| Holder(s) : | Bernadette Merenne‑Schoumaker, Denise Roger |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | For 12 years, the Sporck Chair, created through the Sporck Foundation, allows to invite a foreign renowned colleague in order to ensure students of Master in Geographical Sciences a teaching about a non-treated field at the ULg. This year, the holder of this chair is Pumain Denise, a professor at the University of Paris 1 and Institut Universitaire de France. The theme of the course is "Cities and the theories of complexity." |
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| Course objective : | Opening students to other issues and other forms of thought. |
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| Prerequisites : | Having followed the normal curriculum in Geographic Sciences at the ULg |
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| Workshops : | None |
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| Organization : | The course will revolve around 4 seminars introduced by preliminary readings :
1. How the urban hierarchy is produced by a process of urban geographical growth
2. The invariant laws of scale and socio-economic diversity of the cities
3. The urban area: the process of agglomeration and urban sprawl
4. Simulation models to compare the cities of the world and anticipate their future |
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| Written notes : | Preliminary readings
Course 1 : Pumain D. 1997, Vers une théorie évolutive des villes. L'Espace Géographique, 2, 119-134.
Course 2 : Pumain D. Paulus F. Vacchiani C. Lobo J., 2006. An evolutionary theory for interpreting urban scaling laws, Cybergeo, 343, 20 p.
Course 3 : Guérois M., Pumain D. 2008, Built-up encroachment and the urban field: a comparison of forty European cities, Environment and Planning A, 40, 2186-2203.
Course 4 : Bretagnolle A., Pumain D., Vacchiani-Marcuzzo C., 2007, Les formes des systèmes de villes dans le monde, in Mattéi M.-F., Pumain D. (dir) : Données urbaines, 5, 301-314.
Pumain D., Sanders L., Bretagnolle A., Glisse B., Mathian H., 2009, The Future of Urban Systems, in : D. Lane, D. Pumain, S. Van der Leeuw, G. West (eds.), Complexity perspectives on innovation and social change, ISCOM, Springer, Methodos Series, Berlin, chapter 12. |
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| Assessment : | Questions at the end of the course. A compulsory question and 3 chosen questions to be prepared in writing for an oral examination |
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| Contacts : | - Professeur :
B. Mérenne-Schoumaker
tél. : 04/366 53 24 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail : B.Merenne@ulg.ac.be
- Secrétaire : C. Sarto
tél. : 04/366 56 23 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail : C.Sarto@ulg.ac.be |
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