Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Urban sociology in historical, geographical and scientific context
2	Part I: Development of the discipline Formation of the capitalist urban society and the individual (Tönnies, Simmel, Weber)
3	Class and ethno-racial conflict in the American city (The Chicago School)
4	Informality and duality in the Third World city (Theories of modernisation and dependency)
5	Tutorial (Groups of 10 students will join tutorial sessions of 30 minutes)
6	Part II: Topics in contemporary urban sociology Socio-spatial segregation: Class, skills and income
7	Socio-spatial segregation: Race and ethnicity
8	Mid-term break
9	Socio-spatial inequality: Gender
10	Transformation of work and urban outcasts
11	Transformations in the human-nature relationship and urban ecological destruction
12	Topics in contemporary urban sociology: Term paper presentations
13	Topics in contemporary urban sociology: Term paper presentations
14	Topics in contemporary urban sociology: Term paper presentations
15	Concepts and methods of urban sociology in city and regional planning practice