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Understanding Cities - Audio
by The Open University
At the beginning of the 21st century, more than half the world’s population live in cities. Issues about governance, intensification of social relationships, the impact of globalisation, and the way green spaces are utilised become ever more pressing concerns. The tracks on this album explore some of the challenges faced across the world as citizens and administrators adapt to ever increasing pressures on city spaces and resources. The material forms part of the course DD304, Understanding Cities.
Episodes
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Understanding Cities
A short introduction to this album.
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Nature Spaces
An allotment in Handsworth, Birmingham as an example of a nature space. Allotment holders talk about the ecological, sociological and community benefits of allotments.
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Shared Spaces
Some problems that can arise from differing viewpoints emerging in a shared community space, and possible threats to such spaces.
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Nature Formations
Implications for social justice and the future sustainability of city nature formations, in the context of continuing urban densification.
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New Ideas
Cities as a cultural crucible with nature spaces as an integral part. The potential for allotments as small-scale production centres. The wider implications of nature spaces and their representative values.
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Networking
The effects of globalization trends on cities and the relevance and position of entrepreneurship. What do cities have to do to survive?
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Humanism and cities
The impacts of making the city more competitive, and whether this detracts from cities as a purely human space. Cities as moving beyond purely economic environments.
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Encounter or Containment?
The city as a non-corporate entity - the political possibilities inherent in city spaces. The city can be a politically strategic space, and how otherwise powerless groups can gain attention.
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Unruliness and cities
The relationship of order and disorder in the city, and the intensification of social relationships in cities. Is such disorder positive or negative?
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Power Relations
Is the spacial order of cities a reaction against disorder? The suburbs as a social response to the city environment, the importance of connections in the city.
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Order and Disorder
The problem of segregated spaces and exclusional development in relation to power structures in cities.
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Government and Governance
The distinction between government and governance as a response to the growth of cities. Changing concerns and structures.
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Governance and Privatisation
The promotion of private sector governance in developing countries, and the problems that can arise with communities. Shared agendas as a possible solution.
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Growth Agendas
The development of brownfields sites in terms of growth, using East London as an example,. The victims of such development and the potential cultural and social loss.
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Divergent Agendas
How are agendas defined, and what is lost in a shift to governance over government? The possibilities for democratic accountability and the problems of local councils.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
At the beginning of the 21st century, more than half the world’s population live in cities. Issues about governance, intensification of social relationships, the impact of globalisation, and the way green spaces are utilised become ever more pressing concerns. The tracks on this album explore some of the challenges faced across the world as citizens and administrators adapt to ever increasing pressures on city spaces and resources. The material forms part of the course DD304, Understanding Cities.
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