Description
This module explores the role of the city in structuring social, economic, and ethnic diversity. It offers an overview of how space syntax research fits into the history of concepts relating to society and urban form, with an additional session dedicated to housing and community. The subject of how cities adapt to change over time is studied, alongside research into the relationship between urban design and poverty, health, mobility, religion, ethnicity – and overall, how through a careful application of social cartography we can study urban inequalities empirically. Its aims are that students willÌýdevelop an appreciation of the complexity of the relationship between built form and social diversity; that they willÌýgain understanding of social theories as they pertain to family, community, and societal structures; and that they willÌýappreciate the design issues that stem from people's living arrangements in different parts of the world.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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