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URBAN SOCIOLOGY AND SECURITY Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Sociology of the Environment and Territory
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
General knowledge of Social theory, of the methods of investigation, of Social history and History of Social Though
Objectives
Contents 1. Land and the city as an object of social knowledge
2. Chief approaches to the urban theory
3. Space and social practices
4. Space as a text and a context: the symbolic dimension of urban life
5. Risk, security and risk perception
6. Urban policies and the management of security
7. Cities, territories and the dynamics of globalization
Extended Syllabus 1. Space and social practices
2. City in history
3. City and modernity: Simmel, Le Corbusier and the Chicago School
4. Marxism and the City
5 City and Energy
6. Lands and cities in a global human ecology
7. Risk and risk perception
8. Urban policies and security management
Recommended Bibliography M. Miles, Cities and Cultures, Routledge;
L. Sandercock, Towards Cosmopolis,Wiley; D. Karp et Al., Being Urban. A Sociology of City Life, ABC Clio
Teaching Methods Frontal lesson, with moments of involvement and discussion
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Oral exam, aimed to verify the level of knowledge and the capacity of crytical argumantation about the topics of the course