Development in Cities (985M9)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

You learn how development in cities is critical for the delivery of Sustainable Development Goals.

You examine how:

• more than half of humanity lives in urban areas and poverty is urbanising
• cities are places of economic growth and opportunity
• urbanisation is accompanied by rising inequalities, security and safety concerns and challenges to sustainability.

You look at key concepts and challenges, and the necessity to understand cities as quantitatively and qualitatively different from, but closely connected to, the rural contexts for which much of the traditional development approaches have been devised.

You learn the key frameworks for understanding and learning about the unique challenges of development in cities.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 18 hours of contact time and about 132 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.