Universiteit van Amsterdam • Sociale Geografie en Planologie

A short summary of all lectures and literature for the course Moving the City at the UVA in the year 2019/2020.

Summary of the book Political Geography by Flint & Taylor. Treated the basics of political geography, globalization and the War on Terror. Chapters 2 to 7 (7 in English)

Summary of the book Spaces of Work by Castree et al. (2004) in English. Comprehensive summary of Chapters 2, 4 5, 7, 8, 9.

This summary deals with the first two topics of the course spatial interventions. Topic 1 is called “the basic of planning. “ This topic deals with the ethics of planners, the challenges in planning, the different approaches in planning, the planner's triangle, the role of planners and policy making. Topic 2 is called the institutions of planning. This topic deals with the contradictions and dilemmas in planning, the relationship between economy and policy and the power dilemma.

This summary for the course spatial interventions deals with the last two topics of the course. The first topic is called 'collaborative planning and negotiation'. This topic is about the process behind decision-making in planning. In addition, the types of actors involved in a decision-making process are also addressed in this topic. Furthermore, the ladder of participation is discussed. This topic also deals with the different types of knowledge (from above and from below). The second topic...

This summary of the course 'Building the city' deals with the financial aspect of planning. The topics covered are housing systems, social and public housing, home ownership and private sector rental and policy and practice of common housing.

This summary for the course Building the City deals with planning in relation to the housing market and land. The topics that have been summarized are the basis of land and planning, governance, financialization of land and the role of planners in the housing market.

Lecture 7 (28 September) - Changing Fortunes of World Regions (Robert Kloosterman) - Werner, M. (2016). Global production networks and uneven development: Exploring geographies o devaluation, disinvestment, and exclusion. Geography Compass, 10(11), 457-469. - Kloosterman, R.C., N. Beerepoot and B. Lambregts (2015), ‘Service-sector driven economic development from a historical perspective’. In: B. Lambregts, N. Beerepoot and Robert C. Kloosterman (Eds.), The Local Impact of Globalization in S...

Een goede voorbereiding op het tentamen Geographies of inequality indien gecombineerd met de samenvatting van de bijbehorende literatuur (ook te vinden op Stuvia). Dit is een verzameling van de stof die is gegeven in de hoorcolleges.

Dit is een samenvatting van alle literatuur van de hoorcolleges 1 tot en met 6 en de eerste werkgroep. Aangezien de meestea artikelen erg lang waren, is dit een goede samenvatting geworden. Hieronder staat de literatuur die is samengevat, gesorteerd per hoorcollege: P.S. Ik heb ook een samenvatting online staan op Stuvia van de hoorcolleges. Lecture 1 (5 September)-Introduction: Geographies of Inequality, a Scalar Approach (Hebe Verrest) * Deverteuil, Geoffrey (2009) Inequality. In, Kitchen, ...