Students consider the expansion of urban life into rural locations and explore case studies of change over time. The intervention of government, in the form of legislation and planning policy, is shown as a means to control and guide developments. International Inequalities introduces the major dimensions of international development and their representation. It highlights the interrelationships between the different dimensions of inequality and their spatial patterns. The module presents the students with a variety of tools with which to explore the conceptual and practical issues of representing inequality through interactive learning opportunities and the manipulation of data.
Students have the opportunity to analyse and map inequalities data.
Each variable can be individually categorised and mapped. Comparisons can be made between selected pairs of variables. The results of the comparisons can be used to create customised maps. Regional Economic Change introduces regional economics through differences in industrial employment structure and change over time. Students are introduced to Shift-Share Analysis and trained in the detailed use of this method in the context of a hypothetical dataset based on the Tyne and Wear.