This module is not currently running in 2022 to 2023.
This module explores and evaluates geographical patterns and processes occurring within urban and rural systems. The module includes introductory lectures and seminars on conceptualizing the dynamics of urban and rural change and the underlying economic, social, cultural and environmental processes that drive their geographical expression. Understanding is set within a broader consideration of how social-spatial processes in urban and rural environments can be interpreted and assessed with respect to different values and priorities, and in relation to wider questions of environmental sustainability, social justice and economic prosperity. The introductory lectures and seminars for each section of the course (urban and rural) provide the context in which these systems are investigated empirically through field-based observation, interpretation and analysis
Total contact hours: 48
Private study hours: 252
Total study hours: 300
BSc Human Geography
BA Environmental Social Sciences
BSc Wildlife Conservation
Group presentation (20%)
Journal (3000 words) (30%)
Land Use Systems Report, (4500 words) (50%)
Hall, T. and Barrett, H. (2017) Urban Geography (Routledge)
Jonas et al (2015) Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Wiley)
Woods, M. (2004) Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring. London: SAGE
Woods, M. (2011) Rural. Key Ideas in Geography. London and New York: Routledge
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
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