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Critical Urban Sociology and Post-Socialist Urban Space - JSM219
Anglický název: Critical Urban Sociology and Post-Socialist Urban Space
Zajišťuje: Katedra sociologie (23-KS)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2024
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 8
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neomezen / neomezen (25)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
Garant: Mgr. Václav Orcígr, Ph.D.
Vyučující: Mgr. Václav Orcígr, Ph.D.
Anotace - angličtina
Contemporary cities are the key areas of the global streams of capital, people, and information. It is predicted that by 2030, about 70 % of the world population is going to live in cities. They have become the places of almost all essential processes tied to global neoliberal capitalism, places of concentration of people, structures, institutions, and capital. The physical and social structure of cities is changing rapidly. Processes like gentrification, mass touristification, commercialization of space, financialization and commodification of housing or suburbanization are now typical for many cities worldwide. The complexity of such processes in urban areas requires a reflexive approach that would take into account different varieties of sociological urban research, would reflect global aspects of the topic and also the relationship between social actors and space and their mutual influence.
The course comes out from the New Urban Sociology, a stream of urban studies organized around an integrated paradigm, the socio-spatial perspective. It comes from the original roots of urban sociology but gives a stronger accent on a more radical perspective. It examines the role of social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, and culture in metropolitan areas and integrates social, ecological, and political-economical perspectives and research. The course follows its unique perspective. It maps the concise history of urban life, introduces a clear summary of urban social theory, and focuses on the impact of culture on urban development. A special focus of the course will be given on the use of radical urban theory in the post-socialist context. The course is designed as a mix of theoretical lectures, empirically oriented lectures focused on the situation in Prague and CEE cities, practical excursions/movie screenings and seminar discussions/reflections of each thematic blocks.
Students must be present on the seminars and excursions, write a seminar essay on a selected topic (5 – 7 standard pages) and pass a short test on the discussed topics and mandatory texts. Voluntarily it is possible to prepare short presentations to the seminars (serves as an equivalent of the seminar essay). The use of AI tools for preparation of seminar essays is not allowed.
Poslední úprava: Orcígr Václav, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2024)
Cíl předmětu - angličtina

The goals of the course are:

- To develop the ability of critical scientific grasp of urban processes and get knowledge of the concepts of critical urban theory

- To show inter-relations in the sociological examination of the city

- To focus on the socio-spatial perspective and to be able to perceive the interconnection between the physical and social space

- To understand current processes tied to global capitalism and its urban manifestations in a post-socialist urban space

- To create an environment for critical discussion on current urban topics

Poslední úprava: Orcígr Václav, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2024)
Deskriptory - angličtina

The students are expected to have basic knowledge of classical sociological theories and approaches (Marx, Weber, Simmel, basic approaches of the 20th Century). Therefore, the course is recommended for advanced students (NOT recommended for 1st-grade students). Basic understanding of classical approaches to the city (Chicago school, Simmel, Burgess etc.) is recommended, however not required as the course will briefly mention them too as a basis for further explanation of critical urban theory.

Poslední úprava: Orcígr Václav, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2024)
Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina

To finish the course successfully, it is required:

1) to be present on the lectures, seminars and excourses (maximum three absences allowed); active individual preparation on seminars

2) to write a seminar essay on a selected topic (5 – 7 standard pages)

 - specific problems observed in the city; theoretical essay; use of a minimum of three texts discussed in the course (+ minimum five sources in general)

 - necessary to announce and consult the essay topic by the end of the semester

3) to pass a short test on the discussed topics and mandatory readings

 - ca 20 minutes, open questions

Voluntarily it is possible to prepare short presentations to the seminars (serves as an equivalent of the seminar essay)

 - 10 – 15 minutes on the mandatory/recommended prescribed readings (NOT on Gottdiener et al.) -> summary of the text + ideas for its use in current urban life

Poslední úprava: Orcígr Václav, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2024)
Literatura - angličtina

Mandatory literature:

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994). Selected parts & chapters

Lefebvre, Henri. The Right to the City. In: Writings on Cities, edited by E. Kofman and E. Lebas. 147 – 159. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. 1996.

 

Recommended literature:

Harvey, David. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. New York, London: Verso. 2012.

Madden, David; Marcuse, Peter. In Defense of Housing. London: Verso. 2016.

Lefebvre, Henri. Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell. 1991.

Pixová, Michaela. Contested Czech Cities: From Urban Grassroots to Pro-democratic Populism. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.

Stein, Samuel. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. London: Verso. 2019.

Horak, Martin. Governing the Post-Communist City. Institutions and Democratic Development in Prague. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2007.

Poslední úprava: Orcígr Václav, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2024)
Sylabus - angličtina

Course plan:

 

Module 1: Introduction: Classical Urban Sociology and Critical Urban Theory

1) Lecture: Introduction, The Origins of Urban Life and Urban Sociology

- Approach of the New Urban Sociology: urban regions, metropolitan regions, global capitalism, and the city

- The history of urbanization: first urban civilizations, classical & medieval cities, capitalism & industrial city

- The birth and origins of urban sociology: Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth; the Chicago school: Robert Ezra Park, Ernest Burgess, and others, the concentric model of a city

 

Mandatory reading: 

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 1 – 28.

Recommended literature:

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 41 – 68.

Harvey, David. „Neoliberalism and the City“ in Studies of Social Justice 1, 1. 2007.2–13.

Park, Robert Ezra (ed.). The City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1925, pp. 1 – 47 & introduction.

Stein, Samuel. „The Rise of the Real Estate State“ in Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. London: Verso. 2019, pp. 13 – 40.

Wirth, Louis. „Urbanism as a Way of Life“ in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 1. 1938, pp, 1 – 24.

 

2) Lecture: Contemporary Urban Sociology and Conflictual Perspectives; Suburbanization, globalization, corporate development and how can we use critical urban theory in Prague?

- Classical approaches of political economy to the city: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Friedrich Engels

- The birth of radical urban theory: Henri Lefebvre, early Marxist approaches to urban sociology

- The sociospatial perspective, the production of space

- Structure and agency in the history of suburbanization, real estate market, deindustrialization and globalization, deconcentration

 

Mandatory reading:

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 70 – 90.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Right to the City. In: Writings on Cities, edited by E. Kofman and E. Lebas. pp. 147 – 159. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. 1996.

 

Recommended literature:

Sassen, Saskia. „The Global City: Introducing a Concept“ in Brown Journal of World Affairs Vol. XI, issue 2. 2005. pp. 27 – 43.

Harvey, David. „Labor, Capital, and Class Struggle around the Built Environment“ in Politics and Society 6. 1976, pp. 265 – 295.

Lefebvre, Henri. „Preface to the new Edition: The Production of Space“ in Elden, Stuart, Lebas, Elizabeth, Kofman, Eleonore. Henri Lefebvre: Key writings. London, New York: Bloomsbury. 2003, pp. 232 – 240.

Logan, John R.; Molotch, Harvey L. „The City as a Growth Machine“ in Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1987, pp. 50 – 98.

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 118 – 138 & 169 – 173.

 

3) Excursion: Neoliberal urban development, corporate architecture and global cities – Masarykovo nádraží (Masaryk station) and central Prague

Commented walk in central Prague – projects of Penta development: Žižkov, Prague central station, traffic solutions in central Prague, Masaryk station and transformation of Florenc

 

4) Seminar: Reflection – unifying attributes of global development & planning, global cities

Individual preparation – case study of your hometown + discussion

 

 

Module 2: Post-socialist urbanization & planning, housing crisis, gentrification and mass tourism

 

5) Lecture: Urban Social Problems: Racism, Poverty, Affordable Housing, Crime and Public Health and Actualization for Central Europe; Specifics of Post-socialist urbanization: Transformation, privatization, housing crisis in the CEE context

- The socio-spatial approach to social problems; residential segregation, poverty and deconcentration, housing crisis & affordable housing, residential alienation & struggles

- Post-socialist urbanization, administrative & political changes, privatism, zombie socialism

 

Mandatory reading:

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 226 – 240.

Recommended literature:

Horak, Martin. Governing the Post-Communist City. Institutions and Democratic Development in Prague. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2007.

Chelcea, L., Druţǎ, O. (2016). The Specter of Zombie Socialism and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Eurasian Geography and Economics 57 (4), 1 – 24.

Madden, David; Marcuse, Peter. In Defense of Housing. London: Verso. 2016. pp. 1 – 14, 53 – 118, 191 – 218.

Soaita, Adriana Mihaela. „The Diverse Economies of Housing“ in Critical Housing Analysis Vol. 6, issue 1. 2019, pp. 32 – 41.

Sýkora, Luděk. „Local Urban Restructuring as a Mirror of Globalisation Processes: Prague in the 1990s“ in Urban Studies 31 (7). 1994. pp. 1149 – 1166.

 

6) Lecture: Urban planning, gentrification, and heritage protection; urban semiotics in the context of Prague urban development

the role of planners, classical planning schemes, contemporary role of experts in the post-socialist planning, public participation, gentrification, and urban revitalization

- discourse in urban planning, actors and discursive power

 

Mandatory reading:

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 289 – 314 & 315 – 342.

Recommended literature:

Stein, Samuel. „Planning Gentrification“ in Capital City. London: Verso. 2019, pp. 41 – 78.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House. 1961, pp. 3 – 28 & 112 – 142.

Orcígr, Václav. „Actors in the field of urban development in Prague” in A Hegemonic City: Discursive approach to ideology and dominance in development and planning of post-socialist Prague. Dissertation Thesis. Prague: Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. 2024, pp. 76 – 85.

 

7) Excursion: Urban brownfields and post-socialist urbanization, Prague housing crisis – Bubny-Zátory

Commented walk in Prague 7 – revitalization of brownfield areas and context of housing crisis: Karlín – Holešovice footbridge, Prague market hall, Bubny brownfield

 

8) Excursion: Urban semiotics and discourse of urban planning – Center for Architecture and planning (CAMP)

Visit to a current exhibition at CAMP, joint relfection on discourses and language of the presented topic

 

 

Module 3: Social response to top-down planning: Urban social movements, communities and civic engagement

 

9) Lecture: Urban Communities and Spatial Location; Urban Social Movements & NGOs

- typologies of urban communities and subcultures: neighborhood life, class differentiation, and spatial location; women, gender and space, LGBTQ+ communities

typologies of urban social movements and current urban conflicts, housing and environmental dimensions of urban development, various typologies of „justice“ conception (housing, environmental, spatial)

 

Mandatory reading:

Gottdiener, Mark; Hohle, Randolph; King, Colby: The New Urban Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2019 (1994), pp. 252 – 270 & 278 – 287

Recommended literature:

Harvey, David. „The Creation of the Urban Commons“ in Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. New York, London: Verso. 2012, pp. 67 – 88.

Harvey, David. „The Right to the City“ in New Left Review 53. 2008, pp. 23 – 40.

Hunter, Albert. „Contemporary Conceptions of Community“ in Cnaan, Ram A.; Milofsky, Carl (eds.): Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations. Boston, MA: Springer. 2008, pp. 20 – 33.

Pixová, Michaela. „Urban Grassroots Movements in Post-socialist Czechia: Spatial, Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts “ in Contested Czech Cities: From Urban Grassroots to Pro-democratic Populism. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020, pp. 1 – 55.

Salamon, Sonya. „Describing the Community in Thorough Detail“ in Cnaan, Ram A.; Milofsky, Carl (eds.): Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations. Boston, MA: Springer. 2008, pp. 146 – 162.

Soja, Edward. “The City and Spatial Justice”[«La ville et la justice spatiale», traduction : Sophie Didier, Frédéric Dufaux], justicespatiale |spatialjustice | n° 01 septembre | september 2009

 

10) Excursion – a visit to urban NGO – AutoMat or Arnika

Practical aspects of urban activism – meeting the activists and discussing current cases

 

11) Seminar: Workshop: Planning of a sustainable city – city of short distances, blue-green infrastructure, sustainable traffic solution, active communities and housing affordability, functional planning, public participation

Joint roundtables on urban sustainability and planning – imagination and practical visualisation of sustainable planning practice including public participation

 

 

12) Movie screening: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2016, 92 min.) / Push (2019, 92 min.) / Architects/Arkitekten (2023, 80 min.)

 

Voluntary activity: Individual excursion: Sensing the city – touristification (individual visit to Prague central locations with focus on impacts of mass tourism and AirBnB)

Possible individual activity with specific focus on mass tourism, which can be used as the seminar essay topic

Poslední úprava: Orcígr Václav, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2024)
 
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