Studies of Contemporary Urban Society

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Course description: Key issues are related to changes in understanding urban space as a good of public interest. Concepts of heterotopy and privatopy are emerging with trends of privatization and deregulation in governing the city, capitalization of city culture, turistification of urban space design by economy of symbols. Particular contemporary urban topics (urban guerrilla, urban citizenship, creative and exciting city, safety and sustainability in cities, residential inequalities, gender inequalities and urban space, urban poverty and exclusion, etc.) are analyzed depending on students’ interest. All topics are to be illustrated by research conducted in different development and cultural contexts, with special aim to hypothesize the understanding of urban society in Serbia.

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Literature/Reading:

• Mickee, A. 2005. The Public Sphere: An Introduction. Oxford University Press.
• Setha Low, Dana Taplin, and Suzanne Scheld.2005. Rethinking urban parks : public space and cultural diversity. University of Texas Press.
• Madinapour, A. 2003. Public and Private Spaces of the City. Routledge.
• Stéphane Tonnelat, 2010. The sociology of urban public spaces In WANG Hongyang, SAVY Michel andZHAI Guofang (eds.), Territorial Evolutionand Planning Solution: Experiences fromChina and France, Paris, Atlantis Press.
• Anthony M. Orum, Zachary P. Neal.2010.Common ground? : readings and reflections on public space . Routledge.
• Clarke, D. 2003. Urban World-Global City. Routledge
• Scott, Allen John.2008. Social economy of the metropolis: cognitive-cultural capitalism and the global resurgence of cities . Oxford University Press.
• Binie, J., et al. 2006. Cosmopolitan Urbanism. Routledge.
• Stevenson, D. 2003. Cities and urban cultures. Open University Press.
• Urry, J. 2002. The Tourist Gaze, Sage Publications
• Wearing, S. Stevenson, D. Young, T. 2010. Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller. Sage Publications.
• Mimi Sheller and John Urry . 2006. Mobile technologies of the city. Routedge.
• Mansvelt, J. 2005. Geographies of Consumption, Sage Publications.
• Lily M. Hoffman,Susan S. Fainstein, Dennis R. Judd.eds. 2003. Cities and visitors : regulating people, markets, and city space.Blackwell Publishers.
• Michael Hanagan, Chris Tilly Editors, Contention and Trust in Cities and States, 2011. Springer
• Brenner, N. 2004. New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood. Oxford University Press.
• RITA SCHNEIDER-SLIWA (ed) 2006. Cities in Transition Globalization, Political Change and Urban Development. Springer
• Panayiotis Getimis and Grigoris Kafkalas (eds) .2007. Overcoming fragmentation in Southeast Europe : spatial development trends and integration potential. Ashgate Publishing Company.
• Logan, J. (ed) (2008) Urban China in Transition, Blackwell Publisher
• Seidler, Victor J.,2007. Urban fears and global terrors after 7/7 : citizenship, multicultures and belongings. Routledge.
• Frank Moulaert ... [et al.]. 2010. Can neighbourhoods save the city?: community development and social innovation. Routledge.
• Jeffrey Hou.2010. Insurgent public space: guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of the contemporary cities. Routledge.
• Tanu Priya Uteng and Tim Cresswell, eds. 2008. Gendered mobilities. Ashgate Publishing Company.
• Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. 2006. In the Nature of Cities. Routledge.
• Harvey, D. 2012. Rebel Cities.London: Verso.
• Harvey, D. 2009. Cospomolitanism and Geography of Freedom. Columbia University Press.
• Clarke, D. 2003. The Consumer Society and the postmodern city. Routledge.
• Mina Petrović, (2009) Transformacija gradova – depolitizacija urbanog pitanja, ISI FF, Beograd .
• Dehaene, M., Cauter, L. 2008. Heterotopia and the City, Public space in postcivil society. London and New York: Routledge
• M. Gottdiener and Leslie Budd 2005. Key Concepts in Urban Studes. Sage Publications.