Develop the following skills: critical analysis of urban development
The purpose of this assignment is to develop the following skills: critical analysis of urban development; writing, expression, and communication; independent research; specific and focused knowledge of urban development.
Develop the following skills: critical analysis of urban development
Global Urban Development
Assessment: 3000 word essay (60%)
Question:
“This essay requires you to focus on one of the modules from the subject guide and to provide an analytical literature review of the readings for that module. Additionally, your essay should NOT simply be an annotated bibliography: you need to construct an essay that highlights the major themes connecting the readings, shows your understanding and insights, and puts the authors in conversation around topics of global urban development. Not ALL of the readings included in the module need to be cited in your essay, but a majority of them should be, and your essay should evidence your knowledge and understanding of the readings and class discussions.”
Selected module: Migration and uneven development
The purpose of this assignment is to develop the following skills: critical analysis of urban development; writing, expression, and communication; independent research; specific and focused knowledge of urban development.
You will be marked on the following criteria:
Firstly, How well does your essay address the question?
Secondly, Does your essay make a clear argument and show good structure?
Thirdly, Does your essay reflect good background research (e.g., drawing on class readings and lecture material, and/or outside readings when appropriate)?
Fourthly, Does the essay show good understanding for the material covered?
Further, Does the essay show good analysis and/or critique?
Finally, Does the essay show attention to detail? (E.g., grammar, structure, organization, citations, word count.)
Reading list
FIRSTLY, Amin, A. (2018) City of migrants. In Hall, S. and Burdett, R. (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. Sage Publications, Melbourne: pp. 455-463.
SECONDLY, Chen, X. and Stone, C. (2018) Rethinking border cities: In-between spaces, unequal actors and stretched mobilities across the China-Southeast Asia borderland. In Hall, S. and Burdett, R. (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. Sage Publications, Melbourne: pp. 478-501.
THIRDLY, Sassen, S. (2011) Global migrations and economic need. In Smith, R.M. (Ed.) Also, Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia: pp. 56-91.
FOURTHLY, Merrill, H. (2011) Migration and surplus populations: race and deindustrialization in northern Italy. Antipode 43(5): 1542-1572.
FURTHER, Secor, A.J. (2003) Citizenship in the city: identity, community, and rights among women migrants to Istanbul. Urban Geography 24(2): 147-168.
ADDITIONALLY, Waitt, G. and Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) “It’s about time you came out”: sexualities, mobility and home. Antipode 43(4): 1380-1403.
FINALLY, Wang, Y.P., Wang, Y., and Wu, J. (2009) Urbanization and informal development in China: urban villages in Shenzhen. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(4): 957-973.
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