Urban Infrastructures (2024/2025: Periode 2)

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Cursusdoel

Please note: the information in the course manual is binding.

Please note that this course has a maximum capacity of 50 students
Participation is only possible for registered students.

In case of oversubscription, students will be admitted by drawing of lots.

Be aware this course is 5 EC. It’s not possible to extend this course to 7.5 EC

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Students learn about the development, characteristics and functions of urban infrastructure systems and how this shapes the governance and planning of cities and infrastructures. After completing this course students will be able to:

1. Identify the historical, institutional, socio-spatial, and political factors of infrastructural change in contemporary urbanism
2. Define and represent the socio-technical dimensions of urban infrastructures across different infrastructural domains
3. Apply theoretical insights to analyze the governance of urban infrastructures in local case studies
4. Critically reflect on sustainable infrastructural development in different geographical contexts (North/South)
5. Design, develop, and present research on current infrastructural challenges in Dutch cities


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Vakinhoudelijk

Infrastructures (such as energy, water, wastewater, ICTs, and transport systems) guide and facilitate urban functions and social life in many ways. These networked socio-technical systems provide important conduits through which modern cities operate and assure citizens’ livelihoods and city economies. Infrastructures integrate (or splinter) cities socio-spatially and mediate resource flows between nature and the urban context. Availability of, and access to, infrastructures, and the services they provide, also reflects and shapes social ideas, principles, and notions of social justice. Equally, obdurate infrastructures can prove to be obstacles for those who aspire to bring about radical urban innovations (such as towards environmental sustainability).

The longevity and path-dependency of infrastructures mean that they are deeply embedded in the urban fabric and in current and future planning practices. They shape crucial pathways toward urban futures (e.g., questions of finance and investment, forms of governance, issues of organization and ownership, resource flows and access, and user practices). Much of the history of modern urbanism can be understood as a series of attempts to 'roll-out’, extend, and integrate infrastructures according to various normative ideals (e.g., the “sanitary city”, the “electric city”, the “auto city”, the “bike city”, the “smart city”). Historically, and continuing today, urban planning is therefore closely connected with infrastructure planning.

This course introduces the history, the key characteristics (socio-economic and political) of these urban support systems and discusses their co-evolution with urban environments. The focus is on recent governance, planning and social challenges associated with the ‘splintering’ of urban infrastructures, the risks of failing infrastructures, infrastructures as potential mediators of environmental sustainability transformations, and the role of new and emerging infrastructures in facilitating urban services and functions.

Based on urban case studies (for example, Los Angeles, Cape Town, Maputo, Rio de Janeiro, etc.) the course identifies place-based development patterns of urban infrastructures, infrastructural crises, and potential solutions to the sustainability transition of cities and infrastructures. In-depth individual student investigation and a group research project provide practical insights into the challenges of planning cities and their vital infrastructural systems. .pos_translation { padding-bottom: 3px; } strong { font-weight: bold; } .rtl { direction: rtl; } main { color: #333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: initial; background: #fcf7d9; text-align: left; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #ccc; box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0,0.2) 0px 2px 5px; border-radius: 5px; padding: 6px 8px 3px 8px; position: fixed; z-index: 2147483647; top: -1500px; left: 0; box-sizing: content-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; /* To fix the following issue: 1. Have translate on hover enabled (opposed to translate on click). 2. Wisit a website that has a dropdown menu that opens on hover. 3. Open the menu. 4. Hover over a word within that menu. 5. Incidentally move the cursor over the TransOver popup. The hover menu gets closed. */ pointer-events: none; } .pos_translation { font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; } .red { color: red; } .from_lang { color: grey; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 3px; }

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Werkvormen

Excursie
Toelichting

Half day fieldvisit to Infrastructural sites in Utrecht

Lectures
Toelichting

The course comprises: self-directed reading and learning, lectures with interactive exercises, guest lectures, individual and group projects, online support, and group presentations with feedback. The course will start with a series of introductory lectures and readings on current urban infrastructure debates. This aims to: (1) build theoretical foundations on the key characteristics of infrastructure systems, their societal functions, their history and co-evolution with cities and broader patterns of sociotechnical change (and stability). The course includes papers/presentations on specific empirical case studies on urban infrastructures, and theoretical debates.

Supervision of individual case studies.

Seminars

Toetsing

Eindresultaat

Verplicht | Weging 1% | ECTS 5

• Group Project: 50% • Final presentation: 10% • Individual: 40%

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • Geografie: educatie en communicatie
  • Urban and Economic Geography
  • International Development Studies
  • Spatial Planning

Voorkennis

• There are no formal prerequisites for this course. Basic knowledge of spatial planning and human geography will be helpful. • This course is cross-disciplinary; except the programme requirements there are no further formal entry requirements. • Interest in and basic knowledge of key theories/concepts in urban studies.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • LITERATUUR
    Literature will be provided in due time.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. S.R. Smith s.r.smith@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. F. Pilo f.pilo@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 16 september 2024 tot en met vrijdag 27 september 2024

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 21 oktober 2024 tot en met dinsdag 22 oktober 2024

Inschrijving niet geopend
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