Contemporary Government & Governance (Real Estate & Planning) URBAN5006

This course aims to:
-Provide a wide-ranging introduction to issues in contemporary governance, including evaluating the changing structures of government and the emergence and meaning of the concept of governance.
-Address the theories of how and why government and governance has evolved to its current state, its place in the wider systems and structures of national and international governance.
-Provide an introduction to the concepts of democracy and accountability and their salience in contemporary systems of government and governance.
-Assess and critique contemporary systems of urban governance and evaluate proposals for their reform.
-Introduce and critique the contemporary planning system in Scotland and the UK.

This will be taught over 1 x 4 day block between September and June

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This course will be formally assessed by means of course work in the form of one or two essays of total length 4,000-5,000 words.