Urban Studies (MSc) http://urban-studies.de/ The urban studies program at Darmstadt university was launched in April 2007. It offers a number of different study opportunities to prepare the participants to meet the new challenges resulting from advancing globalization and the need for participatory governance, poverty reduction and interdisciplinary networking. The courses are innovative through its modular …
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Sommerschule 25. – 29. Juli 2010 Diskurs und Raum in Erlangen
Humangeographische Sommerschulen Gesellschaft und Raum http://www.humangeographische-sommerschulen.de/ Die Vorstellung gegebener Räume wird seit einigen Jahren in der Humangeographie aber auch in zahlreichen benachbarten Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften hinterfragt. Nicht zuletzt mit dem cultural turn in der Geographie und dem spatial turn in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften werden Konzepte diskutiert, die sich für die diskursive Herstellung und Reproduktion …
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University College London
Urban Studies (MSc) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanstudies/ This unique course is a collaboration between four UCL faculties (the Bartlett; Arts and Humanities; Engineering; and Social and Historical Sciences). Students take two core modules in “Urban imaginations” and “City, space and power” and then choose further courses from over twenty optional modules ranging from research training (for the dissertation) to …
Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Urban Studies (MSc) http://www.studeren.uva.nl/msc_urban_studies/ In the academic year 2010-2011 the Master’s programme Urban Studies will cease to exist. Instead, within the Urban Studies domain students can choose for the track Urban Sociology as part of the regular Master’s programme Sociology; or for the track Urban Geography as part of the regular Master’s programme Human Geography; or …
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UNICA Euromaster in Urban Studies
www.4cities.eu BRUSSELS, VIENNA, COPENHAGEN, MADRID The urban Millenia has arrived. Now the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. Urban culture is reshaping the world. Urbanisation and globalization are two sides of the same coin 4CITIES is a two-year interdisciplinary master’s programme in urban studies, organised within UNICA, the Network of Universities from the …
Mailinglist H-Urban
http://www.h-net.org/~urban/disclist/index.htm H-URBAN is a moderated, multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and dissemination of scholarship on urban history and urban studies. As a member of H-NET (Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine), H-Urban has no geographical or chronological boundaries. Thus, it welcomes the involvement of scholars, professionals, and graduate students who are interested in urban places and processes …