Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Specialised master in urban and regional planning | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French 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
The course is devoted to the location of the economic activities, as well of the secondary sector as of the tertiary sector. It approaches successively: the measure of spatial distributions, recent trends in location changes, various methods of analysis as well as the operational methods of location choices.
Concerning the field of services, the course deals more particularly with retailing, public services, tourism and services to firms. Combining theory and practices, the course seeks to deal with the location issue at different spatial levels (geopolitical entity, country, region, locality and site).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To allow to future graduates in planning to take into account the spatial dimensions of economic problems and, more particularly, to allow them to analyse and solve location problems related to industries and services.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
A good knowledge of the current economic, political and social context is very useful as the course relies on concrete examples from the economic life.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures with the professor : mixt of presentations and exchanges on both, the main theories of economic geography and the issue of urban territories.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Three textbooks:
1. B. Mérenne-Schoumaker, La localisation des industries. Enjeux et dynamiques, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Didact Géographie, 2011.
2. B. Mérenne-Schoumaker, Géographie des services et des commerces, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Didact Géographie, 2008.
3. G. Devillet et al., Atlas du comemrce en Wallonie, Presse universitaite de Liège, 2014.
Slide presentations based on the textbooks.
A glossary and various illustrations.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam based on the slide presentations (DOC mentioned in the slide to be considered).
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The first course will happen on Tuesday the 16th of September (Salle 1/31, Geography Department).
Contacts
Dr. Guénaël Devillet, Institut de Géographie, Sart Tilman, B11 - 4000 Liège tél. : 04/366 53 19 e-mail: G.Devillet@uliege.be