Duration
20h Th, 10h Pr, 20h Proj., 1d FW
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
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The urban question becomes all the more urgent as the complete urbanization of the planet, hypothesis that Henri Lefebvre had formulated around 1968, seems to be realized at an unexpected speed. As the world population grows in a vertiginous way, as the current work of a radical geography verifies (Harvey, Davis ...), the city dwellers will represent two thirds of the population in 10 years, in other words, 5 billions of human beings will flock to larger and larger cities. It is therefore not surprising to see sociologists like Jean-Marc Stébé and Hervé Marchal affirming that "the city as a human institution has largely imposed itself in our ways of thinking, feeling, acting, moving , to communicate, to love, to consume ... "or philosophers like Olivier Mongin and Thierry Paquot speaking of" urban condition "or even of « homo urbanus » to apprehend this socio-spatial transformation unprecedented in human history.
Among the urban studies or urban studies, the sociology of the city strives to make this phenomenon intelligible since the second half of the 19th century when the first metropolis appeared with the industrial society. Today, in a post-Fordist regime, cities are redeploying themselves according to the modalities imposed by the « new spirit of capitalism ». New phenomena are emerging: economic globalization of the world, development of new technologies and mobility, birth of globalized megacities ... Their analysis therefore requires the mobilization of new concepts (network city in Castell's and Dupuys' work, actor-network theory in Latour ...)
In this course, we will try to identify how the social and the spatial articulate at two key moments in recent history: the turn of the 20th century when the theories of progressive and culturalist urbanism clash (Choay ), and the turn of the 21st century when the industrial city is brought to reconfigure itself under the blow of an economy become largely tertiary, tourist and globalized.
To give us the necessary tools to understand how this spatial / social articulation works in a world in the middle of a reconfiguration, we will quickly draw the history of urban sociology to approach the authors (from Marx to Sennett), the texts (original as well as make possible) and the essential concepts of the discipline (organic solidarity, sociation, urban area, ... lived space, ... metropolisation).
At the end of the course, the students will notably be able to identify these new movements of the contemporary city (gentrification, periurbanisation, relegation, ...) and to explain the political stakes of what the geographer Michel Lussault approaches as a struggle for places, after the class struggle ...
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
For this year 2019-20 this urban sociology course will be given to students who have chosen the course "Urban sociology and co-design" (Architectural and urban engineering).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Seminar
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Seminar
Recommended or required readings
Course notes resuming the logical structure (+ bibliography) and a reading portfolio will be available.
Assessment methods and criteria
The student will present a problematic during a half-hour oral interview. He will show that he has integrated the fundamental notions addressed in the course to answer a question he has asked himself about urban planning or more generally about an urban question.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Stéphane Dawans
sdawans@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
cours du 1er quadri ne nécessitant pas d'adaptation