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(in Polish) The European City

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Course ID: 36-PNIB-EC-11
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: (unknown)
Name in Polish: The European City
Organizational unit: (in Polish) Polsko-Niemiecki Instytut Badawczy
Course groups: AMU-PIE offer, summer semester
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): (not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Short description: (in Polish)

The course aims at providing the students with profound knowledge on the various dimensions of the term of the “European City” in its geographical, urban planning, social, and cultural dimension. This is to be achieved on the basis of an analysis and discussion of key texts by relevant authors.

Full description: (in Polish)

Week 1: Introduction: the dimensions of the European City

The European City – definitions from Weber to the postfordist age

Week 2: The perception of the European City

Planning for the European City

Week 3: European Cities of Culture

Integration in the European City

Week 4: Split cities, twin cities – European cross-border cities

Colloquium: The future of the European City

Bibliography: (in Polish)

Arnaud L., Pinson G. 2004. Shaping the identity and mobilising the “ethnic capital” in three European cities, in: Eckardt F., Hassenpflug D. (eds.), Urbanism and Globalization. Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main, 131-150.

Bagnasco A., Le Galès P. 2000. European cities: local societies and collective actors? In: A. Bagnasco, P. Le Galès (eds.) Cities in Contemporary Europe. Cambridge: University Press, 1-32.

Griffiths R. 2006. City/Culture Discourses: Evidence from the Competition to Select the European Capital of Culture 2008. European Planning Studies 14 (4), 415-430.

Hall P. 2004. European cities in a global world, in: Eckardt F., Hassenpflug D. (eds.), Urbanism and Globalization. Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main, 31-46.

Hassenpflug D. 2001. Walter Benjamin – Looking at the Dream-Side of the City, in: Graafland A. (ed.), Cities in Transition. 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 248-261.

Häußermann H., Haila A. 2005. The European City: a conceptual framework and normative project, in: Kazepov Y. (ed.), Cities of Europe. Blackwell, Oxford, 43-63.

Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities 2007.

New Charter of Athens 2003.

Stryjakiewicz T., Tölle A. 2009. Cross-border cooperation and governance: The case of the twin cities of Frankfurt-upon-Oder and Słubice. Terra Spectra 20 (1), 19-25.

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