Consultation Questionnaires on Course UGOD 5010: Science of Cities

These questionnaires are intended to gather feedback from students who hava previouly taught this course before the next offering of the course. They are designed as consultations rather than satisfaction surveys and focus on four practical questions:

  • Which course content should be retained, reduced, combined, or added?
  • How should the three modules be structured and connected?
  • Which assessment tasks contribute most effectively to learning?
  • How should the types, workload, and weighting of assessment be improved?
Thank you for helping us improve this course. Drawing on your previous experience and the proposed course contents and assessment structure provided below, please share your views on how the course content and assessment should be refined.

Proposed Course Content

The course consists of three modules and nine sessions:

Module 1: Urban Economics

  1. Why Do Cities Exist? — Agglomeration, Productivity, Sorting, and Urban Costs
  2. Urban Spatial Structure — Land, Housing, and Transport
  3. Externalities, Public Goods, and Urban Policy

Module 2: Urban Governance

  1. Who Governs the City? — Actors and Power Structures
  2. How to Govern the City? — Policy Instruments and Institutions
  3. What Happens on the Ground? — Implementation Conflicts and Coordination

Module 3: Urban Informatics

  1. Why Do We Need Urban Informatics? — From Urban Transformation to Future Cities
  2. Sensing and Interpreting the City: Data, Representations, and Evidence
  3. Addressing Urban Challenges — From Urban Informatics to Intervention and Governance in the Age of AI

The course will combine theories with international and Guangzhou-based cases. Students will also be encouraged to select a familiar city or neighbourhood and use it as a continuing case throughout the semester.


Current Proposed Assessment Scheme

Assessment component and Weight
Weekly assignments or quizzes (15%)
Three module reflections (30%)
Group mid-term project proposal (10%)
Group final presentation (15%)
Group project report or paper (20%)
Participation in lectures, field trips, and roundtable activities (10%)
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1. [Select all that apply] Which parts of the course did you remember clearly?【多选题】
Urban Economics
Urban Governance
Urban Informatics
The group project and final assessment
Field trips, roundtable discussions, or other classroom activities
I do not clearly remember the individual modules
Others
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2.[Select up to three] Which topics helped you most in understanding real urban issues and should therefore be retained?【多选题】
Why cities exist: agglomeration, productivity, and urban costs
Urban growth and spatial patterns
Land, housing, transport, and accessibility
Externalities, public goods, and urban policy
Actors and power structures in urban governance
Policy instruments and institutions
Conflict, negotiation, and coordination in policy implementation
The development of urban informatics, future cities, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Urban data, mapping, analysis, and evidence
GeoAI, urban intervention, and governance
Other
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3.[Select up to three; optional comment] Which areas felt excessive, repetitive, too difficult, or insufficiently connected to the rest of the course?【多选题】
Theories and models in urban economics
Land, housing, and transport mechanisms
Externalities, public goods, and policy intervention
Actors, power, and theories of urban governance
Policy instruments and institutional comparisons
Policy implementation, conflict, and coordination
The development of urban informatics and discussions of future cities
Urban data and analytical methods
GeoAI and its urban applications
No content clearly needs to be reduced or simplified
Other
Please briefly explain what would make the selected content easier to understand:
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4.[Short answer] What topic, case, or practical skill would you most like the course to add?
For example: cases from Guangzhou or the Greater Bay Area, housing and equity, climate change, public participation, mapping and data exercises, GeoAI, or data ethics.
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5.[Single choice; comment] How would you prefer the three modules to be organised across the nine sessions?
Retain the current structure of three sessions per module
Retain all three modules but strengthen the connections between them
Allocate more time to Urban Economics
Allocate more time to Urban Governance
Allocate more time to Urban Informatics
Cover fewer topics and explore each core issue in greater depth
Other
Please briefly explain your choice:
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6.[Select up to three] Which learning activities would help you most in this course?【多选题】
Analysis of real urban cases
Using the same city or neighbourhood as a continuing case throughout the semester
Cases from Guangzhou, the Greater Bay Area, or other Chinese cities
Mapping, data, or visualisation exercises
Classroom discussions
Policy simulations or role-play
Field trips
Roundtable discussions with instructors or practitioners
Group work and student presentations
A glossary, sample assignments, or additional introductory materials
Other
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7.[Selection and short answer] Please identify one assessment component that contributed most to your learning.
Weekly assignments or quizzes (15%)
Three module reflections (30%)
Group mid-term project proposal (10%)
Group final presentation (15%)
Group project report or paper (20%)
Participation in lectures, field trips, and roundtable activities (10%)
Why you select this assessment?
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8.[Selection and short answer] Please identify one assessment component that felt most like an additional burden.【多选题】
Weekly assignments or quizzes (15%)
Three module reflections (30%)
Group mid-term project proposal (10%)
Group final presentation (15%)
Group project report or paper (20%)
Participation in lectures, field trips, and roundtable activities (10%)
Why you select this assessment?
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9.[Single choice] Overall, which approach to assessment would you prefer?
Retain the current assessment components and weightings
Retain the current components but reduce the number or length of assignments
Reduce the three module reflections and replace them with one cross-module integrative assignment
Retain the group project but add an individually assessed section, individual reflection, or peer assessment
Increase the weighting of individual assessment and reduce the weighting of group work
Increase practice-, case-, or project-based assessment and reduce written assignments
Other
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10.[Short answer] If only one aspect of the course could be changed before the next offering, what would you most like to change? Please be as specific as possible.
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