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Module URBAN PLANNING & PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT

Module code: GY342
Credits: 5
Semester: 1
Quota: 140
Department: GEOGRAPHY
International: Yes
Coordinator: Dr Sinéad Kelly (GEOGRAPHY)
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This module examines the processes involved in making urban space. An examination is undertaken of the role of various archetypal actors involved in property-development processes, their motivations and interplay and the contrasting features and operations of key property sectors, including office, residential, industrial and retail. Consideration is then given to the uneven temporal and spatial manner of investment flows through the built environment, to boom-to-bust cycles, to processes of functional upgrading and gentrification and, to the increasingly-powerful role played by finance capital in driving urban redevelopment. Attention then shifts to an examination of the role of the state in making urban space. Classical, pluralist, reformist and Marxist perspectives are used to investigate the role of the state in cities and its intervention in urban areas through the planning process. The genesis and ideological origins of urban-planning approaches are reviewed before turning to contemporary planning practice. International case studies of property crashes, financial crises, ‘NewTown’ planning programmes, urban development corporations and micro-area planning projects will be used to illustrate the key themes of the module.

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