REMP32: Cities, Regions and Strategic Governance

Module code: REMP32

Module provider: Real Estate and Planning; Henley Business School

Credits: 20

Level: 7

When you'll be taught: Semester 2

Module convenor: Professor Kathy Pain, email: kathy.pain@henley.reading.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s):

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: No placement specified

Academic year: 2024/5

Available to visiting students: No

Talis reading list: Yes

Last updated: 19 November 2024

Overview

Module aims and purpose

The module prepares students for planning and development leadership roles. Students will gain understanding of the conceptual and practical challenges faced in applying the principles of strategic planning in dynamic global development and English governance contexts. The module develops academic, analytical, evaluative, research and communication skills, while encouraging independent learning.

This module includes independent student research on a group work and an individual basis. During the module, students will study the ways in which the strategic planning and governance of cities and regions in England have developed. This will include studying the ways in which strategies have been restructured over time and in relation to changing local and global operating environments and contemporary sustainable development imperatives.  The module comprises two assessed elements - one group presentation, and one individual research paper.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

• A systematic and in-depth knowledge and understanding of the sustainable development challenges facing contemporary strategic, large-scale city and regional planning and governance, and the issues, constraints and problems that they face;
• An ability to compare and critically assess and evaluate theoretical perspectives, debates, and conceptual frameworks relating to strategic planning and governance;
• Originality in the application of knowledge and concepts relevant to strategic planning and governance, and an awareness of the challenges of creating and interpreting knowledge in this field;
• An ability to identify through in-depth academic reading and independent research, emerging strategic planning and development policy priorities and issues relevant for practice.

Module content

Topics to be covered in the lecture and tutorial programme include:

• English cities and regions in a dynamic global context
• The fluid space of English planning
• The economics behind localism in England
• English city region planning challenges
• Understanding functional urban areas
• Planning functional urban areas

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

The module is taught using a mix of lectures and tutorials. The lectures introduce students to core knowledges. Tutorial sessions will support students to develop their individual and groupwork assignments.

Study hours

At least 18 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 50% to pass the module.

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three working days;
• the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline), no penalty shall be imposed;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three working days of the deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): no penalty will be applied;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

Reassessment

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