Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Master in urban planning and territorial development (120 ECTS) | 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
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The urban question is becoming all the more urgent as the complete urbanization of the planet, a hypothesis that Henri Lefebvre formulated around 1968, seems to be taking place at an unexpected speed. While the world's population is growing at a dizzying pace, city dwellers will soon represent two thirds of it, in other words, 5 billion people who will be crowding into ever larger cities. It is therefore not surprising to see sociologists such as Jean-Marc Stébé and Hervé Marchal assert that "the city as a human institution has largely imposed itself on our ways of thinking, feeling, acting, moving, communicating, loving, consuming..." or philosophers such as Olivier Mongin and Thierry Paquot speak of the "urban condition" or homo urbanus to apprehend this socio-spatial transformation without precedent in human history.
Among urban studies, the sociology of the city has been trying to make this phenomenon intelligible since the second half of the 19th century, when the first metropolises appeared with industrial society. Today, in the so-called post-Fordist regime, cities are redeployed 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 requires the mobilization of new concepts (Castell and Dupuys' network city, Latour's actor-network theory...)
In this course, we will try to identify how the social and the spatial are articulated at two key moments in recent history: the turn of the 20th century when progressive and culturalist urbanism theories (Choay) clash, and the turn of the 21st century when the industrial city is led to reconfigure itself under the impact of an economy that has become largely tertiary, touristic and globalized.
In order to give us the necessary tools to understand how this spatial/social articulation works in a world in full reconfiguration, we will quickly review the history of urban sociology in order to approach the authors (from Marx to Sennett), the texts (original as much as possible) and the essential concepts of the discipline (organic solidarity, sociation, urban area, ...lived space, ...metropolization).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, students will be able to identify a significant issue in the urban fabric today and highlight it using the concepts and theories studied.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will be mainly given in masterful form (with the help of a power point, excerpts from documentaries, ...) and possibly accompanied by one or two presentations of researchers
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Presential, except in cases beyond our control
Recommended or required readings
La sociologie urbaine. Par Jean-Marc Stébé et Hervé Marchal. Année : 2018; Pages : 128; Collection : Que sais-je ? Éditeur : Presses Universitaires de France.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Additional information:
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Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Stéphane Dawans