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This course proposes to give a look at contemporary China from an urban scale, visualising a representative cross-section of this country where many questions, problems and many research fields meet. To this aim, the course also provides an introduction to “Urban Studies”, a multidisciplinary field of studies that is nourished by the perspectives and contributions of geographers, planners, sociologists, political scientists, economists…
The course shall help students think about the city systemically – the urban space called “city” and its population, its dimensions, its past and present uses, its relation to the environment, its growth, the multi-level forces to which it is subjected, its problems, its government, etc. – and acquire new tools to understand contemporary China. A comparative perspective will also help in this intellectual exercise, offering students the possibility to have a better grasp of “the city in China” as well as to get acquainted with the vocabulary of Urban Studies, which may represent a possible research direction for their future studies.
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