Course Co-ordinator: Professor W J Neill

Pre-requisite(s): GG 2011 (Perspectives in Human Geography).

The course is structured as follows:

• Part 1 will review recent theoretical writing on the role of place in the constitution of cultural identity and establish links to prior theorists in geography, economics and sociology.


• Part 2 will be a case study of the spatiality of identity formation in the range of concrete city settings with a particular focus on urban planning and development. The tension with place marketing will receive particular attention.


• Part 3 will explore the concepts of urban citizenship and social capital as participatory processes for the construction of plural cities accommodating a variety of cultural identities.

One 2-hour lecture per week

1st Attempt: One 2-hour examination (67%); coursework: essay or project (33%).

Resit: one 2-hour examination (67%) + original coursework carried forward (33%).