SGO9208B – Sustainable urban transformations and social justice

Course description

• Course content
• Admission
• Overlapping courses
• Teaching

• Examination

Course content

This PhD course focuses on the social inequality implications of urban sustainability strategies, and developing strategies to create socially inclusive city regions. Lectures will focus on specific urban sustainability strategies, like compact city development, green urbanism and polycentric urban and regional planning. Course participants are requested to apply insights on and approaches to socially-inclusive responses to their own work.

The course is organized by Per Gunnar Røe from the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. Røe is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His current research focuses on the social implications of urban sustainability and planning, and how to develop equitable and socially inclusive strategies.

Course lecturers

Isabelle Anguelovski, Professor and Director, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability

Fran Tonkiss, Professor, London School of Economics

 Andrew Karvonen, Professor, Urban Design and Planning, Lund University

 Per Gunnar Røe, Professor, University of Oslo 

Admission

All PhD students (included students at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography) register for the course by filling out this application form. Registration is binding and not possible without sending in your project description. The registration deadline is three weeks prior the course, that is 15.11.2021.

Overlapping courses

2 credits overlap with SGO9208A

Teaching

This course is full-digital and going to be set up via Zoom Webinar. The link to the webinar is going to be sent to all registered participants.

The coure will run four days, including lectures and interactive seminars. Lectures will include group discussions in break-out-rooms.

Schedule

Examination

To obtain 2 CTS credits:

- active class participation on all days of the course

- presentation of your PhD project

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.