Type of Credit: Elective
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Number of Students
This course explores the urban politics of sustainable development, with a focus on climate change. This course consists of four closely related units. In the first unit, we will explore together the key forces shaping the politics of sustainability in global realms. This will lead us to explore the following three interrelated units in urban sustainability actions, including Agenda & Transition, Metrics, and Action. In the second unit, we will discuss sustainable urban agendas and globally transferred paradigmatic imaginaries driven by different human and non-human actors, such as compact cities, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), smart cities, and zero-carbon transitions. Related to this, in the third unit, we will discuss what policy tools, ratings, standards, and markets of public/collective concern have been adopted in sustainable urban governance? How do these create friction or discrepancies with urban realities across different geographies? Finally, in the fourth unit, we will examine the development of innovative urban practices, actions, solutions, and imaginaries that are reshaping our lives, based on different epistemologies, imaginaries, and drivers across scales.
本課程探討永續發展的都市政治，並聚焦於氣候變遷。本模組由四個緊密關聯的單元組成。在第一單元中，我們將一起探討塑造當代城市可持續發展政治的關鍵力量。這將引導我們探索亞洲城市可持續發展政治中以下四個相互關聯的軸心。議程與轉型、衡量標準和行動。在第二單元中，我們將討論由不同的人類行為者和非人類行為者推動的永續都市議程與全球性的典範移轉與想像，譬如緊湊都市、大眾運輸導向規劃、智慧城市與零碳城市。在第三單元，我們將延伸討論，當前的永續都市治理模式採用了哪些政策工具、評等、標準？並衍生了哪些公共/集體關注的市場？這些治理模式的落實，在不同地域間的都市現實世界中，產生什麼樣的摩擦或落差？最後，第四單元中，我們將檢視在地方、區域和全球範圍內，基於不同的認識論、願景想像與推動力，發展出重塑我們生活的都市創新實踐、行動、解方與想像。
能力項目說明
To introduce how urban anthropological, geographical, and planning theories and conceptual tools relating to urban sustainability politics.
To provide analytical frameworks for understanding contemporary urban sustainability politics.
3) To encourage students to thinking critically about the political, economic and social processes that form the urban transitions alongside variegated local and global forces.
4) To encourage students in recognising and appreciating the complexity of urban transformation processes in their lived experience.
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subject-specific Knowledge
be aware of diverse understandings of social, historical, political, environmental, and cultural features of contemporary urban sustainability politics, and capable of situating these issues within the broader global process.
understand and demonstrate the climate actions in cities across the globe.
identify, assess, and interrogate actors and forces that shape the urban politics of sustainable development.
Subject-specific Skills
apply Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions and to develop a preliminary research project;
implementing a preliminary research by collecting data, analysing ideas; and to developing argumentation skills and to communicate findings and reflections.
Key Transferable Skills
Self-directed learning
Transcultural learning
Written and verbal communication
Analysing and contextualizing urban landscapes
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Course Schedule & Requirements 每周課程進度與作業要求
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學習時間 Hours of Learning |
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Introduction 課程簡介 Class Orientation |
*Warm-Up activity |
Getting to know each other |
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Weekly Reading: Syllabus
Extended Reading: Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Mazzucato M., et al. (2019) Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Sustainability, Vol. 2, pp. 805–814. Moll, P., Swilling, M., Thomas, C. J. (2012) Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges, Sustainability science: bridging the gap between science and society, 7 (Supplement 1): pp. 25-43. |
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Section 1. Introducing Urban Sustainability Politics |
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Cities & Climate Change |
Lecture, Guided reading, and Discussion |
Weekly memo |
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Weekly Readings Vanesa Castán Broto · Enora Robin Aidan While (eds.) Climate Urbanism: Towards a Critical Research Agenda, London: Palgrave McMillan. (Chapter 2. pp. 15-30) Harriet Bulkeley & Vanesa Castán Broto (2014) Urban experiments and climate change: securing zero carbon development in Bangalore, Contemporary Social Science, 9:4, 393-414, DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2012.692483
Extended Reading Rosenbloom, D. (2017) Pathways: An emerging concept for the theory and governance of low-carbon transitions, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 43, pp. 37-50.
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Horizontal and Vertical Urbanizations |
Lecture, Guided reading, Group Discussion |
Weekly memo Task: Please record your physical route in daily dwelling and virtual route in navigating the HIGHRISE, and try to make sense of the portrayed narratives with comparison of Stephen Graham’s article.
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Weekly Readings/ Watching *Interactive Online Docu CIZEK, KATERINA (2015) HIGHRISE: Universe Within, National Film Board of Canada. Available at: http://universewithin.nfb.ca/desktop.html Stephen Graham (2015) Luxified skies, City, 19:5, 618-645, DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071113
Award-wining series/ Guardian-concrete-week https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/guardian-concrete-week
Extended readings/ Watching Nam, Sylvia (2017) Phnom Penh’s vertical turn, City, VOL. 21, NO. 5, 622 –631. Harvey, David (2015) The crisis of planetary urbanization, 25th February. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFkasoah00
In-class material: https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/high-rise/index.html
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Section 2. Interrogating Urban Agendas and Paradigmatic Transitions |
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Urban Agendas and their Critics |
Lecture, guided reading, and discussion
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Weekly memos |
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Weekly Readings Set I: Sustainable Urbanization Mehaffy, M. W. and Haas, T. (2018) Informality in the New Urban Agenda: A“New Paradigm?,”Berkeley Planning Journal 30(1):6-22
Vanessa Watson (2021) The return of the city-region in the new urban agenda: is this relevant in the Global South?, Regional Studies, 55:1, 19-28, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1664734
Set II: Smart cities Sadowski J, Bendor R. Selling Smartness: Corporate Narratives and the Smart City as a Sociotechnical Imaginary. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 2019;44(3):540-563. doi:10.1177/0162243918806061 Kitchin R. 2016 The ethics of smart cities and urban science.Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374: 20160115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0115
Extended reading New Urban Agenda Platform https://www.urbanagendaplatform.org/about Mattern, S. (2017) A City Is Not a Computer, Place Journal. pp.1-11. Available at: https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/#0 Mareka L., Campbella M., Bui L. (2017) Shaking for innovation: The (re)building of a (smart) city in a post disaster environment, Cities, Volume 63, March 2017, Pages 41-50. Baykurt, Burcu and Raetzsch, Christoph, "What smartness does in the smart city: From visions to policy" (2020). Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.11771354856520913405
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Policy Transfer and mutations
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Lecture, guided reading, and discussion |
Weekly memo *Each group to discuss/decide a theme of your case study with course instructor |
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Weekly Readings Bok, Rachel and Coe, Neil M. (2017) Geographies of policy knowledge: The state and corporate dimensions of contemporary policy mobilities, Cities, Volume 63, pp. 51-57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.01.001. Peck, J. and Theodore, N. (2010) Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations, Geoforum, Vol. 41, 169–174.
Extended Reading Easterling, K. (2016) Extrastatecraft: The power of infrastructure space, London: Verso. Bok, R. (2019) Urban Mobile Policy in Anthony Orum (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Urban Paradigms and the Mutations (i): TOD
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Lecture, guided reading, and discussion |
Weekly memo
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Weekly Readings Bertolini, L. (2010). Transit-oriented development. In R. Hutchison, M. B. Aalbers, R. A. Beauregard, & M. Crang (Eds.), Encyclopedia of urban studies (pp. 822-824). Sage. Miguel Padeiro, Ana Louro & Nuno Marques da Costa (2019) Transit-oriented development and gentrification: a systematic review, Transport Reviews, 39:6, 733-754, DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2019.1649316
Extended Reading/Resource List |
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National Holiday
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No Class Lecture, guided reading, and discussion |
Weekly memo
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Urban Paradigms and the Mutations (ii): Zero-Carbon Cities |
Lecture, guided reading, and discussion
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Project idea proposed (2 pages proposal/work plan) |
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Weekly Reading Bulkeley, Harriet (2013) Cities and Climate Change, London: Routledge. (Chapter 5, pp. 106-141) Extended Reading |
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Mid-Term Exam |
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Section 3. Global Urban Governance: Policy Tools, Metrics, and Markets |
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Metrics, ratings, and real-world implications
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Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion |
Weekly memos |
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Weekly Readings Jacqueline M., Kloppa Danielle L. Petretta (2017) The urban sustainable development goal: Indicators, complexity and the politics of measuring cities, Cities, Vol. 63, pp. 92-97. |
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Markets for Public/Collective Concerns (i) |
Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion |
Weekly memos
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Weekly reading Christian Frankel, José Ossandón & Trine Pallesen (2019) The organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures, Economy and Society, 48:2, 153-174, DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2019.1627791 Corvellec H, Stowell A, Johansson N. Critiques of the circular economy. J Ind Ecol. 2022; 26: 421–432. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13187 Extended reading Sebastián Ureta (2014) ‘Because in Chile [carbon] markets work!’ Exploring an experimental implementation of an emissions trading scheme to deal with industrial air pollution in Santiago, Economy and Society, 43:2, 285-306, DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2012.760347
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Markets for Public/Collective Concerns (ii) Urban Climate Finance
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Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion |
Weekly memos
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Weekly reading Skovgaard J. Climate Finance: Key Issues. In: The Economisation of Climate Change: How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2021:147-160. doi:10.1017/9781108688048.010
Toby Melissa C. Monsod, Mary Anne Majadillas & Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista (2023) Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries, Climate Policy, 23:6, 735-746, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2224281 Extended listening Climate Finance Podcast https://www.climatefinance.xyz/episodes
Fritz-Julius Grafe, Hanna Hilbrandt & Thilo van der Haegen (2023) The financial ecologies of climate urbanism: Project preparation and the anchoring of global climate finance, Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2235035
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Section 4. Urban Actions/Solutions for Sustainable futures |
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Urban De-growth |
Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion |
Weekly memos
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Weekly reading Turner, Rachel & Wills, Jane (2022) Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol.56, 101180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101180
March, Hug (2021) The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth?, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.197, pp.1694-1703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.15 Extended reading/resource https://www.degrowth.info/en |
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Extracurricular Visit (TBC) |
Guest Lecture, Guided walking tour, Discussion |
Weekly memos
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Maintenance, Repair, and Care |
Guest Lecture, Guided walking tour, Discussion |
Weekly memos
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Weekly Reading Marıa Jose Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, and Isabel Ordonez (2020) Urban commoning practices in the repair movement: Frontstaging the backstage, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 52, Iss. 6, pp. 1150-1170. Mattern, S. (2018) Maintenance and Care, Place Journal. Available at: https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/ Extended Reading Rosa-Aquino, P. (2022). Fix, or Toss? The ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Gains Ground (Published 2020). Retrieved 16 February 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/climate/right-to-repair.html |
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End-of-Term Project Presentation |
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Individual showcases |
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Weekly Reading (TBC.) |
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Flexible Learning Week (i)
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Final ‘report’ submission
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Weekly Reading
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Flexible Learning Week (ii) |
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For undergraduates
1. Class attendance (10%) and in-class responses (10%)
2. Guided reading (work in pair) or minute-taker (15%)
3. Take-home midterm exam - answered in English or Chinese (40%)
4. Group (3-4 persons) project. Topic self-chosen – to be discussed with course instructor, English PPT presentation in class, max. 15min, group report written in English 2,000-2,500 words (25%)
For postgraduates
1. Class attendance (10%) and in-class responses (10%)
2. Guided reading (15%)
3. Weekly memos (written in English 500-800 words) 40%
Please briefly summarize the readings, provide your assessment and discussion questions, and identify potential directions of research.
4. Final Essay (topic see below, written in English 1500-2000 words) 25%
Explainer: What is anticipated from the 'Reading Guide’
From the third week onwards, two to three students will each be responsible for guided reading and minutes-taking of discussion each week (7.5%).
The guided reading should be organized with consideration of the following elements and should be uploaded to Moodle and/or printed out ahead of your presentation slot:
- a brief introduction of the author;
- the context of the article
- the main argument of the article, and
- propose meaningful discussion questions.
The role of minutes-taker (undergrad, work individually or in pair) will offer a summarized note of in-class discussion. There is no need to document the part of guided reading.
The use generative AI tools in this course: Conditionally allowed.
本課程可否使用生成式AI工具：有條件開放使用。
The use of generative AI tools is only allowed at proofreading and editing any text assignments submitted during the semester.
生成式AI工具之使用僅限於學期間繳交之任何文字作業校稿、潤稿階段使用。
See Course Schedule & Requirements.
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