Module Objectives

Elaboration of issues of social and spatial change in large metropolitan areas following the internationally dominant paradigms of theoretical analysis.

Course Contents

Social and spatial changes in European cities under globalization and following the explanatory schemes offered by dominant theoretical paradigms. Focus on metropolitan regions and on the social and spatial impact of the accelerated movement of capital and people, as well as on the ways their regulation is attempted.

Reference to data use from relevant quantitative and qualitative research. Reference also to the features of the South European metropolitan space and to its differences from the model of social and spatial patterning of inequality and change at the European core

Teaching and Assessment

Seminar type, lectures, student essays and presentations.

The module is also available through eclass platform (http://eclass.hua.gr/courses/GEO205/).