Teaching Plan Information

Presentation

This course aims at introducing students to the field of Global City studies from a transdisciplinary approach. More precisely, the course seeks to familiarize students with the main notions and debates of this rapidly consolidating field, as well as to introduce them to the necessary tools and skills required to complete the Degree in Global Studies. The course will be taught in English, and it will be developed in hybrid format (there will be a maximum of 30% of online sessions). 

Associated skills

This course will introduce the learner how to improve the following skills: 

• Describe a wide range of global phenomena affecting the world urbanization process from a transdisciplinary perspective 
• Analyze global phenomena from a local-global dialectic 
• Build a comprehensive knowledge by reviewing the conceptual and methodological foundations of the different disciplines that constitute a global knowledge about city dynamics
• Reflect critically on the role of cities in the globalization process and its challenges based on ethical, cultural, environmental, human rights issues, gender and social justice.
• Recognize the cultural, religious and ethical values for understanding, managing and undertaking conflicts rising from the different faces of global diversity.
• Analyze and find solutions to global problems using different methodologies coming from wide array of disciplines, and more specifically those that are part of the Global Studies degree.

Learning outcomes

This course will also introduce some of the transversal competences that each global studies student should develop during the three years of the degree and should be recorded in their personal Global Studies portfolio.                

The syllabus for the bachelor’s degree in Global Studies envisages promoting and assessing some of the most pertinent cross-disciplinary competences such as:

• (1) written and (2) oral communication in several languages,
• (3) information searching and use of new technologies,
• (4) teamwork,
• (5) access to employment
• and (6) interculturality.

Along with the ability of learning to learn, these competences are fundamental to any professional. The Portfolio is an excellent tool for fostering their development. In order to monitor the Portfolio, Mahara, a web application for open code social network digital portfolios, will be used.

In this course we will organize different activities and seminars that will develop some of those skills and also with the program of “be Global to the UPF” that will allow each of the students to start filling up the portfolio with evidence of each of these six transversal skills and create their own personal professional profile in the public space of the portfolio.

Sustainable Development Goals

During the Global Cities course we will deal with several Sustainalble Development Goals: 

SDG 1: No poverty

SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

SDG 7: Affordable, clean energy

SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth

SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure

SDG 10: Reduced inequalities

SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities

SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production

SDG 13: Climate change

SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals

Prerequisites

This is an optional third-year course, which is developed 100% in English. No other prerequisite is required than being in the third year of the degree and mastering English.

Contents

Module I: Global Cities Defined (weeks 1 and 2)

Introduction to the course, class presentations, making of groups, readings and exercises explanations. Calendar adjustments (if needed).

Topic 1_Introduction to Global Cities: origins, description, main concepts and debates.

Topic 2_Global Urbanization Process: Introduction to basic data and basic terminology about global population and urbanization trends.

Topic 3_Sustainable Development Goal #11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Forum 1: What are Global Cities?

Compulsory readings:

Introduction and one chapter selected by the student of:

BRENNER, Neil and KEIL, Roger, eds. (2006): The Global Cities reader. London, Routledge

Complementary information:

UNDESA World urbanization prospects 2018 https://population.un.org/wup/

Sustainable Development Goal #11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/

HUSTWIT, Gary (2011): Urbanized (Documentary film) https://www.hustwit.com/urbanized

Video: World population, by Population Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFjdmp9sZk&t=9s

https://populationeducation.org/

https://worldpopulationhistory.org/map/1/mercator/1/0/25/#

Module II: Global Cities in a Global Order (weeks 3 and 4)

Topic 4_New Localism: The emerging power of local governments in a context of populisms and nationalisms and the role of cities in global politics, main actors and dynamics that will interact in the global scene, and shape cities in the near present and future.

Topic 5_New Urban Economic Paradigms: Is Capitalism in crisis? New approaches to old urban economic questions.

Forum 2: Could Mayors Rule the World?

Compulsory readings:

BARBER, Benjamin R. (2013): “Chapter 1: If Mayors Ruled the World” in If Mayors Ruled the World. Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities. Yale University Press, pp. 1-24.

HARARI, Yuval Noah (2018):  “Chapter 6: Civilisation”, in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. London, Jonathan Cape, pp. 93-109.

KATZ, Bruce and NOWAK, Jeremy (2017): “Chapter 1: Power Reimagined”, in The New Localism. How Cities can Thrive in the Age of Populism. Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution, pp. 1-16.

RAWORTH, Kate (2017): “Who wants to be an economist?”, in Doughnut economics. Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. London, Random House Business Books, pp. 1-30.

Module III. Global Cities and Planetary Wellbeing (weeks 5 and 6)

Topic 6_Planetary Wellbeing: Understanding why we are immersed in an ecological emergency and why we need to reframe our urban challenges to the sustainability of the biosphere.

Topic 7_Urban Ecological Transition: What is our legacy to future urban generations? What we need to do now to have a sustainable (viable?) urban future.

Topic 8_The Right to the City: Do citizens have the right to housing and a healthy environment in the global city? Capitalist socio-economy and the commons in today’s cities.

Forum 3: A Planet of Cities or a Planet of Slums?

Compulsory readings:

DAVIS, M. (200): “Chapter 1: The Urban Climacteric”, in Planet of Slums. London, New York, Verso, pp. 1-19. Available at (June 9th, 2019): http://rebels-library.org/files/planet_of_slums.pdf

HARVEY, David (2008): The Right to the City. The New Left Review 53, Sept-Oct 2008, pp. 23-40. Available at (June 9th, 2019): https://davidharvey.org/media/righttothecity.pdf and also https://newleftreview.org/issues/II53/articles/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city.pdf

RIPPLE, William et al. “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice” in BioScience, December 2017. Available at (June 9th, 2019): 10.1093/biosci/bix125

Further reading:

LOVELOCK, James (2015): A Rough Ride to the Future. London, Penguin Books.

Module IV. Global Cities and the New Urban Agenda (Weeks 7 and 8)

Topic 9. UN-Habitat and the New Urban Agenda:  Homo Sapiens collaborating at a global scale. Will we be able to implement it?

Topic 10. The Civic City: Identity and society in a nomadic world shape the global city. Which tools do we need to manage the difference and the conflict?

Forum 4: The New Urban Agenda

Compulsory readings:

UN-Habitat: The New Urban Agenda (2016). Available at (June 9th, 2019):  http://habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/

 GEHL, Jan (2010): “Chapter 1: The human dimension”, in Cities for People. Washington, DC, Island Press, pp. 1-30.

LANDRY, Charles (2017): The Civic City in a Nomadic World. Rotterdam, nai010 publishers.

SENNETT, Richard (2018): “Chapter 2: Unstable Foundations”, in Building and dwelling: Ethics for the city. US Macmillan, pp. 39-98.

Module V. Barcelona as a Global City (Weeks 9 and 10)

Topic 11_Urban management and city making: How things really work and are made possible by local governments and other local institutions.  

Forum 5:  Who is your City?

Compulsory readings:

SASSEN, S. 1991. The global city: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

CASTELLS, Manuel (2006): “Cities, the Informational Society and the global Economy”, in BRENNER, Neil and KEIL, Roger, eds., The Global Cities reader. London, Routledge.

FLORIDA, Richard (2008): Who’s your city. How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. Vintage Canada.

Teaching Methods

The different sessions are organized around five main themes or modules. During each module there will be a seminar or a discussion forum to debate the main issues raised in class. The teaching will be hybrid, with a maximum of 30% of online sessions.

The class will be divided in groups of 3 or 4 students maximum, and each group will lead one of the seminars. All seminars will include a class presentation. These projects will be a good evidence for the portfolio for teamwork, research of information and new technologies, and written skills (Portfolio Evidence: teamwork, oral presentation, research and new technologies and team work).

There will also be an individual written assignment about a topic chosen by the student which will fulfill the requirements for written skills, search of information and multiculturality.

• MODULE 1: GLOBAL CITIES DEFINED. The first module looks into the basic terms and institutions to understand how Global Cities are defined today, paying particular attention to its evolution and the complexities of its core components: the globalization phenomenon and the also global urbanization process of humanity.
  • Attached to this first module is forum 1, where we will explore in teams the approach to global city challenges and data, familiarizing with different global and regional organizations related to human settlements. We will also reflect on why we love or hate cities, generating a dialectic discourse between objective and subjective approaches to city analysis.

• MODULE 2: GLOBAL CITIES IN THE GLOBAL ORDER. The second module analyzes the role of cities in the current global order. We will look at global politics and social and economic dynamics, to understand how these forces shape cities, and how city dynamics affects geopolitics and the global economy in return.
  • Forum 2 will analyze the current trends in politics and the evolving roles of state-nations and local governments in different regions of the world. The discussion will take account also of social and economic patterns and their impact on cities.

• MODULE 3: GLOBAL CITIES AND PLANETARY WELLBEING. The third module explores the impact of cities in human and planetary wellbeing. We will discuss this recently coined term and its implications for city functioning and planning, in order to frame the socio-ecological impacts of current city making into this new perspective.
  • Forum 3 will deepen the understanding of urban metabolism, both related to ecological and sociological flows in global cities. We will make a review of different and opposing ideas about the impact of cities in the ecological sustainability of the biosphere and the social sustainability of capitalist urban societies.

• MODULE 4: GLOBAL CITIES AND THE NEW URBAN AGENDA. The fourth module will examine solutions to global city challenges proposed by different institutions or global agents. In order to do so, we will discuss basic ideas about city planning and design and their evolution over time.
  • Forum 4 will explore the New Urban Agenda and the role of UN Habitat. We will watch a video presentation by Joan Clos, former Under Secretary General of UN and Executive Director of UN-Habitat (2010-2018) and former Mayor of Barcelona (1997-2006), who was one of the protagonists of the Habitat III event and the definition of the New Urban Agenda. We will gather questions from students and send them to him, to get answers and comments after his firsthand experience with the genesis of the New Urban Agenda.

• MODULE 5: BARCELONA AS A GLOBAL CITY. The Final Module is dedicated to Barcelona as a global city. We will discuss different meanings and interpretations of Barcelona’s becoming of a Global City and its role in the global context, while also debating about the relationship of the students with the city they live in.       
  • Forum 5 will deal with the urban and sociopolitical history of Barcelona, and its transformation into a global city in the recent decades. We will discuss about urban management and try to shed some light on how city making works. If the circumstances allow, we will visit the City Promotion Department of the City Council of Barcelona, to have a first-hand impression on how the City of Barcelona deals with its international image and impact.

Evaluation

The evaluation of this course comprises the following components:

a) Forums. Active participation in all 5 forums is mandatory. This component is worth 30% of the course’s final grade. Students will have to answer questions to the general threads initiated by the Professor, occasionally start new threads and make also questions and interact with other classmates.

b) Individual videopresentation. This component is worth 20% of the course’s final grade. This includes reading an individually assigned paper on a topic selected by the student, and then making a video presentation of himself and the paper to the rest of the class.

c) Team videopresentation. This component is worth 25% of the course’s final grade. This includes making, in teams of 3 or 4 students, a pdf presentation and a videopresentation of the combined content of the papers assigned for each of the the individual presentations. The students have to make a common introduction and a homogeneus presentation, not the addition of the individual presentations. Team dynamics and a coherent team outcome will be evaluated.

d) Final Paper. Students should have section a (Forums), section b (individual videopresenation) and section c (team videopresentation) minimum requirements to be allowed to present the final paper. The topic of the paper will be chosen by the student and it will have an extension between 2.000 and 2.500 words. This component is worth 25% of the course’s final grade.

Students who fail to obtain a final grade of 5,0 or above have the right to re-take all components during the exam period in the second semester if they meet the two following conditions: 1) having participated and submitted the activities of at least three of the seminars; and 2) having delivered the final paper.

Bibliography and information resources

BRENNER, Neil and KEIL, Roger, eds. (2006): The Global Cities reader. London, Routledge

DAVIS, M. (200): “Chapter 1: The Urban Climacteric”, in Planet of Slums. London, New York, Verso, pp. 1-19. Available at (June 9th, 2019): http://rebels-library.org/files/planet_of_slums.pdf

HUSTWIT, Gary (2011): Urbanized (Documentary film) https://www.hustwit.com/urbanized

Video: World population, by Population Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFjdmp9sZk&t=9s

https://populationeducation.org/

https://worldpopulationhistory.org/map/1/mercator/1/0/25/#

BARBER, Benjamin R. (2013): “Chapter 1: If Mayors Ruled the World” in If Mayors Ruled the World. Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities. Yale University Press, pp. 1-24.

CASTELLS, Manuel (2006): “Cities, the Informational Society and the global Economy”, in BRENNER, Neil and KEIL, Roger, eds., The Global Cities reader. London, Routledge.

FLORIDA, Richard (2008): Who’s your city. How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. Vintage Canada.

GEHL, Jan (2010): “Chapter 1: The human dimension”, in Cities for People. Washington, DC, Island Press, pp. 1-30.

HARARI, Yuval Noah (2018):  “Chapter 6: Civilisation”, in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. London, Jonathan Cape, pp. 93-109.

HARVEY, David (2008): The Right to the City. The New Left Review 53, Sept-Oct 2008, pp. 23-40. Available at (June 9th, 2019): https://davidharvey.org/media/righttothecity.pdf and also https://newleftreview.org/issues/II53/articles/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city.pdf

KATZ, Bruce and NOWAK, Jeremy (2017): “Chapter 1: Power Reimagined”, in The New Localism. How Cities can Thrive in the Age of Populism. Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution, pp. 1-16.

LANDRY, Charles (2017): The Civic City in a Nomadic World. Rotterdam, nai010 publishers.

LOVELOCK, James (2015): A Rough Ride to the Future. London, Penguin Books.

RAWORTH, Kate (2017): “Who wants to be an economist?”, in Doughnut economics. Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. London, Random House Business Books, pp. 1-30.

RIPPLE, William et al. “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice” in BioScience, December 2017. Available at (June 9th, 2019): 10.1093/biosci/bix125

SASSEN, S. 1991. The global city: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

SENNETT, Richard (2018): “Chapter 2: Unstable Foundations”, in Building and dwelling: Ethics for the city. US Macmillan, pp. 39-98.

UNDESA World urbanization prospects 2018 https://population.un.org/wup/

UN-Habitat: The New Urban Agenda (2016). Available at (June 9th, 2019):  http://habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/

UN: Sustainable Development Goal #11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/

Información del Plan Docente

Presentación

Este curso tiene como objetivo introducir a los estudiantes en el campo de los estudios de Ciudades Globales desde un enfoque transdisciplinario. Más precisamente, el curso busca familiarizar a los estudiantes con las principales nociones y debates de este campo en rápida consolidación, así como introducirlos en las herramientas y habilidades necesarias para completar el Grado en Estudios Globales. La docencia será en inglés e híbrida, con un máximo de un 30% de las sesiones online. 

Competencias asociadas

Este curso presentará al alumno cómo mejorar las siguientes habilidades:

• Describir una amplia gama de fenómenos globales que afectan el proceso de urbanización mundial desde una perspectiva transdisciplinaria.
• Analizar fenómenos globales desde una dialéctica local-global
• Construir un conocimiento integral revisando los fundamentos conceptuales y metodológicos de las diferentes disciplinas que constituyen un conocimiento global sobre la dinámica de la ciudad.
• Reflexionar críticamente sobre el papel de las ciudades en el proceso de globalización y sus desafíos basados en cuestiones éticas, culturales, ambientales, de derechos humanos, género y justicia social.
• Reconocer los valores culturales, religiosos y éticos para comprender, gestionar y afrontar los conflictos que surgen de los diferentes rostros de la diversidad global.
• Analizar y encontrar soluciones a problemas globales utilizando diferentes metodologías provenientes de un amplio abanico de disciplinas, y más concretamente las que forman parte de la carrera de Estudios Globales.

Resultados del aprendizaje

Este curso también introducirá algunas de las competencias transversales que cada estudiante de estudios globales debe desarrollar durante los tres años de la titulación y deben registrarse en su carpeta personal de estudios globales.

El plan de estudios del grado en Estudios Globales prevé promover y evaluar algunas de las competencias transversales más pertinentes como:

(1) comunicación escrita y (2) oral en varios idiomas,
(3) búsqueda de información y uso de nuevas tecnologías,
(4) trabajo en equipo,
(5) acceso al empleo
y (6) interculturalidad.

Junto a la capacidad de aprender a aprender, estas competencias son fundamentales para cualquier profesional. El Portafolio es una excelente herramienta para impulsar su desarrollo. Para monitorear el Portafolio, se utilizará Mahara, una aplicación web para portafolios digitales de redes sociales de código abierto.

En este curso organizaremos diferentes actividades y seminarios que desarrollarán algunas de esas habilidades y también con el programa de “Be Global to the UPF” que permitirá a cada uno de los alumnos empezar a rellenar el portafolio con evidencias de cada uno de estos seis. competencias transversales y crear su propio perfil profesional personal en el espacio público del portafolio.

Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible

Durante el curso de Ciudades Globales abordaremos varios Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible:

ODS 1: Fin de la pobreza

ODS 6: Agua potable y saneamiento

ODS 7: Energía limpia y asequible

ODS 8: Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico

ODS 9: Construir una infraestructura resiliente

ODS 10: Reducción de las desigualdades

ODS 11: Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles

ODS 12: Producción y consumo responsables

ODS 13: Cambio climático

ODS 17: Alianzas para los objetivos

Prerrequisitos

Este es un curso opcional de tercer curso, que se desarrolla 100% en inglés. No se requiere otro requisito previo que estar en el tercer año de la carrera y dominar el inglés.

Contenidos

Module I: Global Cities Defined (weeks 1 and 2)

Introduction to the course, class presentations, making of groups, readings and exercises explanations. Calendar adjustments (if needed).

Topic 1_Introduction to Global Cities: origins, description, main concepts and debates.

Topic 2_Global Urbanization Process: Introduction to basic data and basic terminology about global population and urbanization trends.

Topic 3_Sustainable Development Goal #11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Forum 1: What are Global Cities?

Compulsory readings:

Introduction and one chapter selected by the student of:

BRENNER, Neil and KEIL, Roger, eds. (2006): The Global Cities reader. London, Routledge

Complementary information:

UNDESA World urbanization prospects 2018 https://population.un.org/wup/

Sustainable Development Goal #11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/

HUSTWIT, Gary (2011): Urbanized (Documentary film) https://www.hustwit.com/urbanized

Video: World population, by Population Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFjdmp9sZk&t=9s

https://populationeducation.org/

https://worldpopulationhistory.org/map/1/mercator/1/0/25/#

Module II: Global Cities in a Global Order (weeks 3 and 4)

Topic 4_New Localism: The emerging power of local governments in a context of populisms and nationalisms and the role of cities in global politics, main actors and dynamics that will interact in the global scene, and shape cities in the near present and future.

Topic 5_New Urban Economic Paradigms: Is Capitalism in crisis? New approaches to old urban economic questions.

Forum 2: Could Mayors Rule the World?

Compulsory readings:

BARBER, Benjamin R. (2013): “Chapter 1: If Mayors Ruled the World” in If Mayors Ruled the World. Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities. Yale University Press, pp. 1-24.

HARARI, Yuval Noah (2018):  “Chapter 6: Civilisation”, in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. London, Jonathan Cape, pp. 93-109.

KATZ, Bruce and NOWAK, Jeremy (2017): “Chapter 1: Power Reimagined”, in The New Localism. How Cities can Thrive in the Age of Populism. Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution, pp. 1-16.

RAWORTH, Kate (2017): “Who wants to be an economist?”, in Doughnut economics. Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. London, Random House Business Books, pp. 1-30.

Module III. Global Cities and Planetary Wellbeing (weeks 5 and 6)

Topic 6_Planetary Wellbeing: Understanding why we are immersed in an ecological emergency and why we need to reframe our urban challenges to the sustainability of the biosphere.

Topic 7_Urban Ecological Transition: What is our legacy to future urban generations? What we need to do now to have a sustainable (viable?) urban future.

Topic 8_The Right to the City: Do citizens have the right to housing and a healthy environment in the global city? Capitalist socio-economy and the commons in today’s cities.

Forum 3: A Planet of Cities or a Planet of Slums?

Compulsory readings:

DAVIS, M. (200): “Chapter 1: The Urban Climacteric”, in Planet of Slums. London, New York, Verso, pp. 1-19. Available at (June 9th, 2019): http://rebels-library.org/files/planet_of_slums.pdf

HARVEY, David (2008): The Right to the City. The New Left Review 53, Sept-Oct 2008, pp. 23-40. Available at (June 9th, 2019): https://davidharvey.org/media/righttothecity.pdf and also https://newleftreview.org/issues/II53/articles/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city.pdf

RIPPLE, William et al. “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice” in BioScience, December 2017. Available at (June 9th, 2019): 10.1093/biosci/bix125

Further reading:

LOVELOCK, James (2015): A Rough Ride to the Future. London, Penguin Books.

Module IV. Global Cities and the New Urban Agenda (Weeks 7 and 8)

Topic 9. UN-Habitat and the New Urban Agenda:  Homo Sapiens collaborating at a global scale. Will we be able to implement it?

Topic 10. The Civic City: Identity and society in a nomadic world shape the global city. Which tools do we need to manage the difference and the conflict?

Forum 4: The New Urban Agenda

Compulsory readings:

UN-Habitat: The New Urban Agenda (2016). Available at (June 9th, 2019):  http://habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/

 GEHL, Jan (2010): “Chapter 1: The human dimension”, in Cities for People. Washington, DC, Island Press, pp. 1-30.

LANDRY, Charles (2017): The Civic City in a Nomadic World. Rotterdam, nai010 publishers.

SENNETT, Richard (2018): “Chapter 2: Unstable Foundations”, in Building and dwelling: Ethics for the city. US Macmillan, pp. 39-98.

Module V. Barcelona as a Global City (Weeks 9 and 10)

Topic 11_Urban management and city making: How things really work and are made possible by local governments and other local institutions.  

Forum 5:  Who is your City?

Compulsory readings:

SASSEN, S. 1991. The global city: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

CASTELLS, Manuel (2006): “Cities, the Informational Society and the global Economy”, in BRENNER, Neil and KEIL, Roger, eds., The Global Cities reader. London, Routledge.

FLORIDA, Richard (2008): Who’s your city. How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. Vintage Canada.

Metodología docente

Las diferentes sesiones se organizan en torno a cinco temas o módulos principales. Durante cada módulo habrá un seminario o un foro de discusión para debatir los principales temas planteados en clase.  La docencia será en inglés e híbrida, con un máximo de un 30% de las sesiones online. 

La clase se dividirá en grupos de 3 o 4 alumnos como máximo, y cada grupo dirigirá uno de los seminarios. Todos los seminarios incluirán una presentación en clase. Estos proyectos serán una buena evidencia para el portafolio de trabajo en equipo, investigación de información y nuevas tecnologías, y habilidades escritas (Portafolio Evidence: trabajo en equipo, presentación oral, investigación y nuevas tecnologías y trabajo en equipo).

También habrá un trabajo escrito individual sobre un tema elegido por el alumno que cumplirá con los requisitos de habilidad escrita, búsqueda de información y multiculturalidad.

• MÓDULO 1: DEFINIENDO LAS CIUDADES GLOBALES. El primer módulo analiza los términos e instituciones básicos para comprender cómo se definen las Ciudades Globales hoy, prestando especial atención a su evolución y las complejidades de sus componentes centrales: el fenómeno de la globalización y el proceso de urbanización también global de la humanidad.
  Adjunto a este primer módulo está el foro 1, donde exploraremos en equipos el enfoque de los desafíos y datos de las ciudades globales, familiarizándonos con diferentes organizaciones globales y regionales relacionadas con los asentamientos humanos. También reflexionaremos sobre por qué amamos u odiamos las ciudades, generando un discurso dialéctico entre enfoques objetivos y subjetivos del análisis de la ciudad.

• MÓDULO 2: CIUDADES GLOBALES EN EL ORDEN GLOBAL. El segundo módulo analiza el papel de las ciudades en el orden global actual. Examinaremos la política global y la dinámica social y económica para comprender cómo estas fuerzas dan forma a las ciudades y cómo la dinámica de la ciudad afecta la geopolítica y la economía global a cambio.
  El Foro 2 analizará las tendencias actuales en política y los roles cambiantes de los estados-naciones y los gobiernos locales en diferentes regiones del mundo. La discusión tendrá en cuenta también los patrones sociales y económicos y su impacto en las ciudades.

• MÓDULO 3: CIUDADES GLOBALES Y BIENESTAR PLANETARIO. El tercer módulo explora el impacto de las ciudades en el bienestar humano y planetario. Discutiremos este término recientemente acuñado y sus implicaciones para el funcionamiento y la planificación de la ciudad, con el fin de enmarcar los impactos socioecológicos de la construcción de la ciudad actual en esta nueva perspectiva.
  El Foro 3 profundizará la comprensión del metabolismo urbano, tanto en relación con los flujos ecológicos como sociológicos en las ciudades globales. Haremos un repaso de ideas diferentes y contrapuestas sobre el impacto de las ciudades en la sostenibilidad ecológica de la biosfera y la sostenibilidad social de las sociedades urbanas capitalistas.

• MÓDULO 4: CIUDADES GLOBALES Y LA NUEVA AGENDA URBANA. El cuarto módulo examinará las soluciones a los desafíos de las ciudades globales propuestas por diferentes instituciones o agentes globales. Para ello, discutiremos ideas básicas sobre planificación y diseño de ciudades y su evolución en el tiempo.
  El Foro 4 explorará la Nueva Agenda Urbana y el papel de ONU Hábitat. Veremos un vídeo de presentación a cargo de Joan Clos, ex Subsecretario General de ONU y Director Ejecutivo de ONU-Habitat (2010-2018) y exalcalde de Barcelona (1997-2006), quien fue uno de los protagonistas del evento Habitat III y la definición de la Nueva Agenda Urbana. Recopilaremos preguntas de los estudiantes y se las enviaremos, para obtener respuestas y comentarios después de su experiencia de primera mano con la génesis de la Nueva Agenda Urbana.

• MÓDULO 5: BARCELONA COMO CIUDAD GLOBAL. El Módulo Final está dedicado a Barcelona como ciudad global. Discutiremos diferentes significados e interpretaciones del devenir de Barcelona como una Ciudad Global y su papel en el contexto global, al tiempo que debatiremos sobre la relación de los estudiantes con la ciudad en la que viven.
  El Foro 5 abordará la historia urbana y sociopolítica de Barcelona y su transformación en una ciudad global en las últimas décadas. Hablaremos sobre la gestión urbana y trataremos de arrojar algo de luz sobre cómo funciona la construcción de ciudades. Si las circunstancias lo permiten, visitaremos el Departamento de Promoción de la Ciudad del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, ​​para tener una impresión de primera mano de cómo el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona afronta su imagen e impacto internacional.

Evaluación

La evaluación de este curso comprende los siguientes componentes:

a) Foros. La participación activa en los 5 foros es obligatoria. Este componente vale el 30% de la nota final del curso. Los estudiantes deberán responder preguntas a los hilos generales iniciados por el profesor, ocasionalmente iniciar nuevos hilos y también hacer preguntas e interactuar con otros compañeros.

b) Videopresentación individual. Este componente vale el 20% de la nota final del curso. Esto incluye leer un trabajo asignado individualmente sobre un tema seleccionado por el estudiante y luego hacer una presentación en video de él mismo y del trabajo al resto de la clase.

c) Videopresentación en equipo. Este componente vale el 25% de la nota final del curso. Esto incluye realizar, en equipos de 3 o 4 estudiantes, una presentación en pdf y una videopresentación del contenido combinado de los trabajos asignados para cada una de las presentaciones individuales. Los estudiantes deben hacer una introducción común y una presentación homogénea, no la adición de presentaciones individuales. Se evaluará la dinámica del equipo y un resultado coherente del equipo.

d) Trabajo final. Los estudiantes deben tener los requisitos mínimos de la sección a (Foros), la sección b (videopresentación individual) y la sección c (videopresentación en equipo) para poder presentar el trabajo final. El tema del trabajo será elegido por el alumno y tendrá una extensión entre 2.000 y 2.500 palabras. Este componente vale el 25% de la nota final del curso.

Los estudiantes que no obtengan una calificación final de 5,0 o superior tienen derecho a volver a tomar todos los componentes durante el período de exámenes en el segundo semestre si cumplen las dos siguientes condiciones: 1) haber participado y presentado las actividades de al menos tres de los seminarios; y 2) haber entregado el examen final.

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