SGO9208A – Sustainable urban transformations and social justice
Course content
This PhD course focuses on the social inequality implications of urban sustainability strategies, and developing strategies to create socially inclusive city regions. Lectures will focus on specific urban sustainability strategies, like compact city development, green urbanism and polycentric urban and regional planning. Course participants are requested to apply insights on and approaches to socially-inclusive responses to their own work.
The course is organized by Per Gunnar R?e from the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. R?e is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His current research focuses on the social implications of urban sustainability and planning, and how to develop equitable and socially inclusive strategies.
Course lecturers
Isabelle Anguelovski, Professor and Director, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
Fran Tonkiss, Professor, London School of Economics
Andrew Karvonen, Professor, Urban Design and Planning, Lund University
Per Gunnar R?e, Professor, University of Oslo
Admission
All PhD students (included students at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography) register for the course by filling out this application form. Registration is binding and not possible without sending in your project description. The registration deadline is three weeks prior the course, that is 22.11.2021.
Overlapping courses
2 ECTS - SGO9208B
Teaching
This course is full-digital and going to be set up via Zoom Webinar. The link to the webinar is going to be sent to all registered participants.
The coure will run four days, including lectures and interactive seminars. Lectures will include group discussions in break-out-rooms.
Schedule
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Monday December 6th 2021
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Before lunch (09-10):
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Course Introduction Per Gunnar R?e |
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Urban Environments: Ecology, Inequity, Mobility Fran Tonkiss |
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After lunch (13-15): |
PhD presentations
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Wednesday December 8th
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Before lunch (09-12): |
Social Justice in the Compact City Per Gunnar R?e |
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After lunch (13-15): |
PhD presentations
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Thursday December 9th
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Before lunch (09-12): |
From Privilege to Justice in the Unequal Green City Isabelle Anguelovski, |
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After lunch (13-15): |
PhD presentations
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Friday December 10th
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Before lunch (09-12): |
When Sustainable Cities Get Smart: Social Equity and Citizenship in the Digital Age Andrew Karvonen, |
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After lunch (13-15): |
PhD presentations
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Examination
PhD students interested in attending only the lectures can receive 2 study points for this course. See SGO9208B.
To obtain 5 CTS credits:
- active class participation on all days of the course
- presentation of your PhD project
- submission of a paper of minimum 4 000 words, to be submitted by January 31st 2022.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.