Inclusive Cities URBAN5146

  • Academic Session: 2025-26
  • School: School of Social and Political Sciences
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

The course discusses the matter of social inclusion in relation to urban space and city-making. It critically explores the concepts of social inclusion, exclusion, urban segregation and discrimination and the practices fostering (in)equality and discrimination in urban space.

Timetable

The course will be delivered in 3 hourly blocks, once per week, over 6 consecutive weeks.

Requirements of Entry

NA

Excluded Courses

NA

Co-requisites

NA

Assessment

A professional-style report of 2,500 words (100%) where students are asked to take into account the relationship between contrasting theories and experiences of urban inclusion and exclusion, and critically assess the success and/or failure of inclusion policies and practice in different urban settings.

Course Aims

This course aims to critically discuss contemporary debates around inclusive cities, approaches to social inclusion, practices of social inclusion and exclusion in urban space as well as policies for inclusive city-making, and provide students with an awareness of social inclusion and a breadth and depth of knowledge on inclusive city-making to enable them contributing to creating a more inclusive urban future.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Critique contemporary theories, debates, approaches and perspectives around social inclusion and inclusive city-making with a focus on people-centred narratives and experiences of exclusion.

■ identify practices fostering social inclusion, exclusion or discrimination in contemporary cities, urban settings and city-making processes which take place across the world in different countries;

■ assess the success or failure of city-making policies and interventions proposed at different scales, for their role in promoting a more inclusive urban future or fostering exclusion and discrimination in urban space.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.

 

Minimum requirement for award of credit for students on MSc City Planning is D3 or above.

 

University standard regulations apply to students on other qualifications.