Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

GEOGRAFIA HUMANA - 2023/2024

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Analyze and think over the profound changes, current social processes and problems in the world.
Give the students tools and sources of information, so that each student can draw their own conclusions.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Know fundamental concepts and issues of Human Geography.
Understand the current distribution of the world population as a result of historical, socio-cultural and political processes.
Identify the demographic trends of the world population by comparing its main demographic indicators.
Recognise the spatial dimension of socio-cultural, political and economic dynamics of human groups.

Skills to be acquired

The intention is, above all, that students develop and perfect their critical ability and the need to understand social phenomena, since the architect and the urban planner, in the performance of their activities, are called to identify and interpret the constant changes occurring in the territory and in the society.

Teaching Procedures

Using images and texts of different authors (it seems essential to us the plurality of points of view, due to the complexity and comprehensiveness of the questions). We will try to stimulate the critical thinking, the discussion and the elaboration of syntheses between Human Geography, Architecture and Town planning.

Programme

1. Introduction to Human Geography
1.1. fundamental concepts and issues in Human Geography;
1.2. the field of study of human geography today.

2. Population
2.1 Population, population density, population distribution;
2.2 Dynamics of population growth and decrease;
2.3 Composition of populations;
2.4 Factors responsible for population dynamics.


3. Urbanisation
3.1. The process of urbanisation and emergence of urban society;
3.2 From the pre-capitalist city to the industrial city;
3.3 The industrial city, the taylorisation of urban life;
3.4 Anti-urban discourses and urban utopias;
3.5. The crisis of the Fordist model and the post-Fordist city;
3.6. Current cities: the "Planet City".

4. Migration
4.1 Migrations, dynamics, cycles and migratory models;
4.2 Factors responsible for migration.

5. Cultures and cultural landscapes
5.1 Local cultures, popular cultures and their relationship with places;
5.2 Local cultures, popular cultures and cultural landscapes.

Evaluation Type

Besides the frequency examination and the test examination, the assessment will include two tests and, eventually, an investigation work made by the students.

Teaching Resources

For the presentation and discussion of the programmatic contents, it will be used computer resources (namely the powerpoint program), diverse bibliography, cartography, photographs and texts for critical thinking.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Population;
Settlement;
Migrations
Territorial Dynamics;
Urbanization;
Cultural landscapes.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography