Advanced Topics
- Development, Globalization & Planning
- Social Difference, Health & Mobility
- Power, Environment & Global Challenges
The remaining sections (V, VI, and VII) are optional specialization tracks. They build directly on the core and allow you to explore particular interests or future directions.
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Development, Globalization & Planning
Focuses on economic change, inequality between places, and how societies shape cities and regions. -
Social Difference, Health & Mobility
Centers on people’s lived experiences, identity, well-being, and movement through space. -
Power, Environment & Global Challenges
Examines power relations, environmental crises, and the big global issues of our time.
Development, Globalization & Planning
| Subject | Book | Online Course |
|---|---|---|
| Development Geography | Geographies of Development (Potter et al.) | Open University – Making Social Worlds (related open module) |
| Global Economic Networks | Global Shift (Dicken) | UC Berkeley – Economic Geography lectures (related lectures) |
| Urban & Regional Planning | Urban Land Use Planning (Berke & Godschalk) | — |
Social Difference, Health & Mobility
| Subject | Book | Online Course |
|---|---|---|
| Social Geography | Social Geographies (Valentine) | — |
| Health Geography | Geographies of Health (Gatrell & Elliott) | — |
| Tourism & Leisure Geography | Tourism Geography (Williams & Lew) | — |
Power, Environment & Global Challenges
| Subject | Book | Online Course |
|---|---|---|
| Geopolitics | Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (Dodds) (preview on Oxford Academic) | Political Geography (above) |
| Climate Change & Human Adaptation | IPCC AR6 WGII (open-access) (full official open-access report) | — |
| Environmental Justice | Environmental Justice (Walker) | — |