ELECTIVE MODULE: URBAN GEOGRAPHY: URBANISATION - HOUSING - TOURISM
| Title | ΕΠΙΛΟΓΕΣ: ΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΑ: ΑΣΤΙΚΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ- ΚΑΤΟΙΚΗΣΗ - ΤΟΥΡΙΣΜΟΣ / ELECTIVE MODULE: URBAN GEOGRAPHY: URBANISATION - HOUSING - TOURISM |
| Code | 08TH12 |
| Faculty | Engineering |
| School | Architecture |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 20002560 |
Programme of Study: PROGRAMMA SPOUDŌN 2020-21 EŌS SĪMERA
Registered students: 16
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| Academic Year | 2025 – 2026 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Weekly Hours | 2 |
| Class ID | 600286975
|
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600286975
- eLearning (Moodle):
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
Required Courses
- 03TT10 INTRODUCTION TO THE ORGANIZATION OF URBAN SPACE
- 04TH10 CITY AND URBAN PLANNING
Learning Outcomes
Attending successfully the course students:
- Fully understand basic notions, processes and results of urbanization and tourism
- Learn to identify and scientifically grasp contemporary urban phenomena and critical issues
- Are introduced and practice in research methods in urban geography (quantitative - qualitative synthesis)
- Practice in organization, documentation and writing of scientific reports
General Competences
- Make decisions
- Work in an international context
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Cities are in continuous change. Geographies, environmental conditions, socio-spatial structures, human activities, all, gradually and in every instance readapt, in different rhythms and with unexpected effects within history. The course is introductory to the study of urbanization and contemporary urban phenomena, such as tourism. In the triangulation of economic, social, environmental and cultural approaches in the field of urban geography the course considers the complexness of the urban phenomenon from its origins to the contemporary “urban age”. The course focuses on the contemporary processes and manifestation of urbanization with an emphasis on space and place. It goes over “kaleidoscopic” transformations in parallel with applied policies and phenomena, uniquely expressed in every place, but glocalized by local specificities, new global economy conditions, continuous movement of people, perpetual information flows, planetary environmental crisis. It focuses particularly on the spatial manifestation of urban change, on dwelling and housing, on landscapew and public space transformation in the recent decades on the fringe of the city through its new relation with the countryside and the global hinterland. Thus, an objective of the course is to enhance and research on the obscure and undocumented cultural, social, political and gender dimensions of growth and sprawl of contemporary (greek) cities.
The course content evolves through seminars and lectures as well as student presentations. Evaluation is based on an interim presentation and the final written essay – report on a topic which reflects the individual interest of each student within the thematic framework of the course. The course is introductory to a written diploma dissertation in the field of urban geography.
Keywords
urbanization, urban change, sprawl, urban transformation
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Video lectures
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 20 | ✓ | |||
| Seminars | 8 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Fieldwork | 5 | ||||
| Reading Assigment | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Tutorial | 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Written assigments | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 75 |
Student Assessment
Description
Students are assessed through
a. interim presentations during the term
b. submission and presentation of extensive written essay at the end of term
Assessment criteria are clearly stated at the course description posted on elearning.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
- Report (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
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Βιβλίο [ 94645340]: Τουρίστες, ταξίδια, τόποι. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις στον τουρισμό, Συγγραφείς: Τσάρτας Πάρις, Ζαγκότση Σμαράγδα, Κυριακάκη Άννα
Βιβλίο [ 143547988]: Σύγχρονες αρχές σχεδιασμού για τη διατήρηση και την ανάδειξη ιστορικών κέντρων, Συγγραφείς: Διμέλλη Δέσποινα
Βιβλίο [122088488]: Ο Τουρισμός «Χορηγός» της Αρχιτεκτονικής Κληρονομιάς, Συγγραφείς: Παρπαΐρης Δ. Απόστολος
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Βιβλίο[ 133040664] Ελληνικό τοπίο. Ανθολογία κειμένων, Συγγραφείς: Δημήτρης Φιλιππίδης, Ηλίας Κωνσταντόπουλος
Βιβλίο [ 86192891]: «αυτές οι επερχόμενες πόλεις…», Συγγραφείς: Αναγνώστου Σ.
Βιβλίο [50662484]: Τοπία αστικής διάχυσης: αστικοποίηση και πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός, Χριστοδούλου Χάρις Λεπτομέρειες
Last Update
24-09-2025
