Study materials on space for Housing Imagination study

Study materials on space for Housing Imagination study

1. Production of space: slide 1 (main arguments); basic idea - slide 2; slide 3.
2. Spatial practices: slide 1; 
3. Spatial justice: slide 1 (efficiency and justice)
4. Trialectics: slide 1; 
5. Basic idea on space: slide 1; 

Spatial justice as a topic in housing imagination study - some videos

Spatial justice as a topic in housing imagination study - videos: 


1. Edward Soja: Seeking Spatial Justice and the Right to the City.

2. Seeking Spatial Justice in Asian Cities.

3. Spatial Justice workshop - David Harvey

4. Spatial Justice workshop - Doreen Massey

A research question example for independent study assignment

A research question example for independent study assignment

For independent study, research questions could be stated in the following ways, e.g.:

Format 1

Research question 1: Is there a correlation between capital structure (the x variable) and return on equity (the y variable) for the manufacturing companies listed on the HK stock exchange?

or

Format 2

Research question 1 is to test the validity of the following hypothesis:

There is no correlation between capital structure (the x variable) and the return on equity (the y variable) for the manufacturing companies listed on the HK Stock Exchange? (the null hypothesis). That is the correlation coefficient is 0

There is some correlation between capital structure (the x variable) and the return on equity (the y variable) for the manufacturing companies listed on the HK Stock Exchange. (the alternative hypothesis). That is the correlation coefficient is not 0.

Humanism for Housing Imaginations study - some study resources

Humanism for Housing Imaginations study - 
some study resources

Videos 1. The origins and future of Humanism
2. Humanism
3. Renaissance Humanism
4. Humanistic Theory
5. Humanistic geography


A brief note on humanistic geography

The Marxian perspective in Housing Imaginations study - some videos

The Marxian perspective in Housing Imaginations study - some videos
[Drawn on presentations from David Harvey]



1. The urbanization of class struggle
2. The contradictions of capitalism
3. Limits to gentrification
4. Marx, capitalism and madness of economic reason
5. Spatial justice
6. The neoliberal city
7. Slums and skyscrapes housing

8. Interview content about Marxism: video 1; video 2; video 3.

Videos on the topic of home in Housing Imaginations study

Videos on the topic of home in Housing Imaginations study.


Three related topics are involved in the home topic for Housing Imagination study:

1. Marriage: family and marriage; marriage and cohabitation.

2. Family: sociology of the family; the functionalist perspective on family; changing family pattern.

3. Home: meaning of home; meanings of home; home as elsewhere.



Reference
An enriched notion of home (a blog note).

Sociological perspectives for Housing Imaginations study - videos

Sociological perspectives for Housing Imaginations study and video resources:


An overall introduction: a video

On the objective perspective: structural functionalism; structural functionalism

On the subjective perspective: symbolic interactionism; social constructionism. [also see: a blog note on humanism]

On the critical perspective: conflict theory; Karl Marx's ideas; on Marxism; Feminist and conflict theory. [also see: the Marxian perspective blog note]

On the postmodern perspective: what is postmodernism; postmodern social theory.