Магистратура
2021/2022
Городская политика и управление в странах БРИКС
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Политический анализ и публичная политика / Political Analysis and Public Policy)
Направление:
41.04.04. Политология
Кто читает:
Кафедра публичной политики
Где читается:
Факультет социальных наук
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Прогр. обучения:
Политический анализ и публичная политика
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This is a master’s level course on urban policy and governance. The structure of the course is divided into two halves, after an introductory seminar. First, it introduces some of the main approaches to urban policy and governance as they have developed in the US and Europe. These include: urban regime theory, urban growth machine, local government studies, and examinations of decentralisation reforms. Second, the course explores how well these theories can be applied to large non-western cities; namely, São Paulo, Shanghai, New Delhi and Moscow. In each of these cities a number of governance challenges are examined, according to specific themes, using some of the theories introduced in the first part of the course. Finally, some of the strengths and weaknesses of the theories are considered in light of the case studies, and with the help of seminar discussions we consider how they might contribute to further theorising of urban policy and governance beyond the west.
Learning Objectives
- To provide students an understanding of the main approaches to urban policy and governance, and some of the recent developments in it, and their strengths and weaknesses when considered against the cases of non-western megacities.
- Make your own arguments about urban policy and governance that draw on issues taken from non-western cities, in ways that test and critically examine existing theories, and present these arguments in the proper academic form.
- Understand some of the main governance challenges facing the world’s largest cities, some of the ways they have been addressed and the strengths and weaknesses of these reforms.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Be able to critically examine urban policy and governance cases in order to test theories.
- The student will gain an understanding of local government studies and its strengths and limitations.
- Understand some of the main challenges of the world’s largest cities and some of the policy and governance solutions that have been applied to resolve them.
- Understand the main approaches to urban policy and governance in the international literature and their strengths and weaknesses.
Course Contents
- Introduction to Urban Policy and Governance
- Urban Regime Theory
- Cities as Growth Machines
- Local Government Studies
- Urban Policy and Governance in New Delhi
- Urban Policy and Governance in São Paulo
- Urban Policy and Governance in Moscow
- Urban Policy and Governance in Shanghai
- Evaluating the challenges and effectiveness of urban governance in global cities
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Badyina, A., & Golubchikov, O. ( 2 ). (n.d.). Gentrification in central Moscow - A market process or a deliberate policy? Money, power and people in housing regeneration in Ostozhenka. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 87(2), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3684.2005.00186.x
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Sassen, S. (2016). The Global City: Enabling Economic Intermediation and Bearing Its Costs. City & Community, 15(2), 97–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12175