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000120L - URBAN AND REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

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ID:
000120L
Duration (hours):
48
CFU:
6
SSD:
GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICO-POLITICA
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
Course Details:
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE/ECONOMIA E FINANZA Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...
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Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (12/02/2026 - 12/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

The course is proposed to provide an updated framework concerning the concepts and the phenomena that permit - today - to understand the functioning of the economic system. Among these, the city intended as a territorial synthesis of the progress and of the innovation, analyzed at local and global extent. In a world in which the half of the population lives in the cities, the urban geography increasingly arises as a basic learning, helpful for understanding the deep metamorphosis of the urban space which is - more than anyone else - crossed by composite procedures, like those of globalization, competitiveness, migration, settlement dispersal and the related issues. Urban competitiveness, knowledge and innovation, quality of life, urban sustainability, social cohesion, malaise and well-being in cities and changing social-spatial landscapes are representing, today, new variables whom the city is called upon to face with, and these are addressed by the geographical reading through a systematic handling, where the city arises as the main territorial player, able to move and lead the functioning of the related economic and productive systems, in the context of an enhanced competitiveness. These goals help to understand in a critical and “spatialized” way the economics’ and markets’ dynamics. In particular, the role of the city as the baseline territorial node able to transmit competitiveness to the economic system and as a "hot spot" to rethink urban sustainability. These skills will make the student to be able to debate in a critical way some socio-economic issues which are related, for example, to the localization choices, the territorial unbalances, the competitiveness and sustainability factors and they will permit him/her to analyze regional case studies, by expressing an independent judgment about the strengths and weaknesses of the territory, by identifying the issues and by suggesting suitable solutions.

Course Prerequisites

No preparatory constraints are provided for.

Teaching Methods

The course will take place through classroom lectures and discussions with students on the topics covered. The lessons will be conducted through the use of slides. The organization of deepening seminars about some specific topics is expected.

Assessment Methods

The final assessment provides for an oral interview aimed to certify the comprehension of the topics addressed during the course and as presented in the study program. Furthermore, the assessment is proposed to verify the ability to apply knowledge through the solution of case studies and/or the ability to produce a critical debate on urban competitiveness and sustainability factors with a multi-scale reading. The assessment is provided through marks expressed in thirtieths. Full marks are foreseen.

Texts

1) DEMATTEIS G. & LANZA C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, Torino, Utet, 2011. 2) limited to the chapters, 7 and 8: VICARI HADDOCK S. (edited by), Questioni urbane. Caratteri e problemi della città contemporanea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013 For the ERASMUS students: 1) DEMATTEIS G. & LANZA C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, Torino, Utet, 2011. 2) A short deepening essay about a topic addressed during the course, supposedly referable to their city of origin.

Contents

The course addresses the following topics: a) Definition and typologies of cities From the countryside to the city: the world-scale urban phenomenon From the city to the countryside: expansion and urban dispersal Functions and urban dynamics Urban income, transportations and the city shape Urban populations Systems and city networks The global city Urban policies Urban Competitiveness b) The urban issues The city, immigrants’ gateway; urban povert

Course Language

Italian

More information

Office hours for students is ensured on the Wednesday (10:00-12:00) or on another day to be agreed with the teacher. A specific communication channel has been provided for contacts in telematic mode. In any case, please send an email to professor for an appointment.

Degrees

Degrees

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE 
Master’s Degree
2 years
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People

People (2)

FUSCHI Marina
AREA MIN. 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche
Settore GEOG-01/B - Geografia economico-politica
Gruppo 11/GEOG-01 - GEOGRAFIA
Docenti di ruolo di Ia fascia
IACUONE SILVIA
Teaching staff
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