Housing Imagination - teaching plan 2015

Housing Imaginations – Teaching Plan 2015
Hong Kong version (Joseph, Kim-keung Ho)
Session #
Topics
1
(Jan 28, 2015)
·       Introduction to Housing Imaginations
·       Briefing on assignment 1

Readings: subject syllabus and assignments 1 and 2 docs; Gregory (1994)
2
(Feb 4, 2015)
·       The meanings of place I (Hong Kong context)
Reading: Cresswell (2009)
3
(Feb 11, 2015)
·       The meanings of place II (Hong Kong context)
Reading: Ho (2014c)
4
(Feb 25, 2015)
·       The meanings of space (Hong Kong context)
Reading: Elden (2009) and Kitchin (2009)
5
(Mar 4, 2015)
·       The meanings of home (Hong Kong context)
Readings: Easthope (2004) and Ho (2014b)
6
(Mar 11, 2015)
·       Presentation – assignment 1
7
(Mar 18, 2015)
·       Briefing on assignment 2
8
(Mar 25, 2015)
·       Specific applications I: social housing
Reading: Marsh and Mullins. (editors) (199; chapter 8: A prize of citizenship? Changing access to social housing)
9
(Apr 1, 2015)
·       Specific applications II: social exclusion
Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002, chapter 14: social exclusion)
10
(Apr 8, 2015)
·       Specific applications III: gender
Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002, chapter 17: gender and housing)
11
(Apr 15, 2015)
·       Specific applications IV: homelessness
Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002; chapter 19: homelessness)
12
(Apr 22, 2015)
·       Revision

Core Readings:
Balchin, P. and M. Rhoden. 2002. Housing Policy: An Introduction. Routledge, London.
Cresswell, T. 2009. “Place” Elsevier. (url address: http://booksite.elsevier.com/brochures/hugy/SampleContent/Place.pdf) [visited at April 17, 2014].
Easthope, H. 2004. “A Place Called Home” Housing, Theory and Society 21(3). Taylor & Francis: 128-138.
Elden, S. 2009. “Space I” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: 262-267.
Marsh, A. and D. Mullins. (editors). 1998. Housing and Public Policy. Open University Press. Buckingham.
Gregory, D. 1994. Geographical Imaginations. Blackwell.
Kitchin, R. 2009. “Space II” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier:  268-275.
Readings related to the Hong Kong contexts:
Ho, J.K.K. 2014a. “An Endeavor to Establish the subject of Housing Imagination based on Critical Systems Thinking” European Academic Research 2(2), May: 2048-2066.
Ho, J.K.K. 2014b. “A Research Note on Home Study in Housing Imagination using Soft Systems Methodology” European Academic Research 2(3), June: 3659-3675.
Ho JKK. 2014c. “An examination of the place notion for Housing Imagination study based on Systems Thinking” European Academic Research 2(6), September: 7537-7552.
Internet resource: Facebook group (closed group) on Housing Studies: https://www.facebook.com/groups/built.environment.jkkho/
Publications on housing (jkkh)


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