DEGREE PROGRAMMES

: City and Regional Planning

General Description

History

Architectural education in the city of Izmir has first been offered in 1963 by Aegean Engineering and Architectural Private School, which has been founded at Buca, Izmir. Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Architecture has then been established in 1992, on the 3rd of July. However, the foundation of the Faculty as party of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Alsancak dates earlier, to the year 1971. The Faculty has been moved to its new building in Buca, Tınaztepe, Kaynaklar Campus in 2004.
Since the beginning of undergraduate architectural education with 12 students in 1972, the Faculty has gone through a number of new developments that have various legal and institutional reflections. One of such is the start of undergraduate education in urban planning with the foundation of the Department of City and Regional Planning in 1979. In time, the two Departments of Architecture and City Planning has taken a prominent place in the establishment of different institutional bodies as part of first the Aegean University Engineering Sciences, Academy of Engineering and Architecture (1971), secondly Aegean University Faculty of Fine Arts (1975), then Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (1982), and finally Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Architecture (1992).

Qualification Awarded

Ph. D. in City and Regional Planning

Level of Qualification

Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

Second Cycle (Master's Degree) diploma; minimum 80/100 or 3/4 Cumulative Grade Point Average, minimum score of 60 from the National Central Graduate Education Entrance Examination (ALES) in the related field; a minimum score of 70 from the graduate school entrance exam; a minimum score of 60 from the nation-wide Foreign Language Exam ( YDS ) or equivalent score from an exam accredited by YÖK.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

According to the Regulations of Dokuz Eylül University for Graduate Schools, students may be accepted for graduate transfer with the approval of the Department Directorate and decision of the Board of Directors of the Graduate School in case the student fulfills the graduate transfer regulations decided by the General Council of the Graduate School. Previously taken courses at another graduate programme with a successful grade may be recognized by the related programmes with the written request of the students including course contents and the transcript, and by the recommendation of the Department Directorates and by the decision of the Board of Directors. The courses taken by the outgoing Exchange students may have the recognition at the school either as compulsory or elective by the decision of the Board of Directors.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

4 years, 2 semesters per year, 16 weeks per semester, 240 ECTS in total.

Profile of the Programme

The cities occupy a crucial role in daily living practices as areas where economical relations are established and organized on the one hand, and where social culture is being produced on the other. While economical profitability is dependent upon spatial fluidity, functionality and facilities offered by the cities, cultural structure, which is the inevitable imperative for social re-production, is realized through those experiences attained over urban space. In this respect, to the extent that cities can provide for facilities as places of economical and social communication, sound and successful processes can be attained along the line of development extending from the individual to the society. Searches for reaching livable environments undoubtedly do not interfere with organization of merely the built environment. The naturality of the relations between the natural and urban environments bears important connections with the harmony between man and nature.
The Department of City and Regional Planning deals with the city as the re-production area social and economical processes and the organization of urban spaces. This area of interest comprises the relations between nature and built environments. In national, regional, urban and sub-urban regions, planning should be able to create not only such spatial organizations that can maximize economical profitability, but also such spatial opportunities where the society can express and re-produce its cultural identity.

Percentage of Courses Taught in English: %30

Key Learning Outcomes

1   Ability to comprehend the interaction between planning and other disciplines to develop analytical evaluations and derive original results.
2   Ability to develop a new scientific technique or to adopt a known technique to planning and to bring novelty in urban planning.
3   Developing contemporary and advanced level theoretical approaches and searches in urban planning through original thought and research.
4   Ability to use and interpret different knowledge types in developing original problem solving techniques in planning.
5   Evaluation of the effects of development decisions on space in terms of planning processes.
6   Evaluation of the sustainability concept together with its subcomponents and development of the pertaining knowledge.
7   Ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate critically the natural, social, economic, cultural and political processes.
8   Achieving the knowledge pertaining to the principals of using natural and physical resources.
9   Ability to develop models to relate economic components to public utility and use economic components for common good.
10   Ability to recognize and apply the basics of cost-benefit analysis and control.
11   Graphical representation ability to support visual communication (Ability to represent each phase of analysis, synthesis and design formally.).
12   Written and spoken communication ability including following literature in foreign languages and expressing ideas academically in discussions.
13   Gaining the ability to criticise and evaluate urban planning analytically as a field of data generation and implementation, thinking on different paradigms, searches for new solutions.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Alumni are employed in the public sector (ministries and affiliated provincial organizations, municipalities) and private sector (private offices, appraisal companies, and so on).

Access to Further Studies

May apply to post doctorate programmes.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

In addition to the compulsory courses of the programme, students register to elective courses appropriate for their thesis topic, on the consent of their supervisor. If necessary, on the consent of their supervisor, they can also register to courses from other programmes (from DEU or other universities).
T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory
B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
 
1 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
G 0 - ELECTIVE COURSE ELECTIVE - - - 30
TOTAL:   30
 
2 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
B 1 FBE 6666 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ETHICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5
B 2 PLN 6098 PH.D. RESEARCH COMPULSORY 3 0 0 9
B 0 - ELECTIVE COURSE ELECTIVE - - - 16
TOTAL:   30
 
3 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
G 1 PLN 6094 PH.D. SEMINAR COMPULSORY 0 3 0 5
G 2 PLN 6098 PH.D. RESEARCH COMPULSORY 3 0 0 9
G 0 - ELECTIVE COURSE ELECTIVE - - - 16
TOTAL:   30
 
4 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
B 1 PLN 6099 PH.D. THESIS COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 
5 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
G 1 PLN 6099 PH.D. THESIS COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 
6 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
B 1 PLN 6099 PH.D. THESIS COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 
7 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
G 1 PLN 6099 PH.D. THESIS COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 
8 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
B 1 PLN 6099 PH.D. THESIS COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 
FLEXIBLE ELECTIVE COURSE ACCORDING TO ECTS
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
Z 1 PLN 5013 TECHNIQUES OF PROJECT EVALUATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 2 PLN 5015 RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 3 PLN 5101 CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 4 PLN 5093 APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR PLANNERS ELECTIVE 2 2 0 7
Z 5 PLN 5091 SOCIOLOGY OF SPACE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4
Z 6 PLN 5089 USING INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN CITY PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 7 PLN 5069 RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS METHODS IN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 8 PLN 5067 URBAN PLANNING RESEARCH ELECTIVE 4 4 0 13
Z 9 PLN 5065 ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 10 PLN 5059 HOUSING PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 11 PLN 5087 METROPOLITAN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 12 PLN 5063 RURAL AREAS, AGRICULTURE PROBLEM AND CAPITALISM ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4
Z 13 PLN 5061 RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND VILLAGE STUDIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4
Z 14 PLN 5057 PLANNING TECHNIQUES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 15 PLN 5055 LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF URBAN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 16 PLN 5053 ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF URBAN AREAS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 17 PLN 5045 URBAN AND URBAN SYSTEMS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 18 PLN 5041 NEW POLICIES - NEW DYNAMICS IN THE LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 19 PLN 5051 APPLIED STATISTICS FOR PLANNERS ELECTIVE 2 2 0 6
Z 20 PLN 6015 EXAMINATION OF PLANNING CONCEPTS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 21 PLN 5037 CAPITAL ACCUMULATION RELATIONS IN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 22 PLN 5023 HOUSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 23 PLN 5017 NEW SETTLEMENTS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 24 PLN 5064 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN URBAN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 25 PLN 5080 DISASTER AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN URBAN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 26 CON 5082 NATURE CONSERVATION AND PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 27 PLN 5062 PLANNING OF IND.DEV.IN URBAN AREAS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 28 PLN 5056 ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES AND PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 29 PLN 5052 THE STRUCTURE OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIAL PORDUCTION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 30 PLN 5060 TECHN.OF CONS.OF HIST.URBAN ENVIRONMENT ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 31 PLN 5078 TRAFFIC INDUCED NOISE AND VIBRATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3
Z 32 PLN 5076 INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPORTATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3
Z 33 PLN 5050 ORAL HISTORY OF SPACE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 34 PLN 6020 OTHERS AND PHYSICAL PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 35 PLN 6018 THEORY AND ACTION RELATIONSHIP IN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 36 PLN 6016 SUSTAINABILITY AND PHYSICAL PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 37 PLN 5074 INFRASTRUCTURE IN REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 38 PLN 5048 MODERNITY, POSTMODERNITY, CITY AND SPACE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 39 PLN 5072 TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MODELING WITHIN THE URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 40 PLN 5030 SOCIAL POLICY IN PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 41 PLN 5028 TOWNSCAPE ON ROUTES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 42 PLN 5024 RECREATION AND PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 43 PLN 5070 PLANNNING THEORY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 44 PLN 5022 ECOLOGICAL PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
Z 45 PLN 5018 URBAN DESIGN ELECTIVE 0 4 0 5
Z 46 PLN 5068 URBAN PLANNING STUDIO ELECTIVE 4 4 0 14
Z 47 PLN 5016 RURAL PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5
Z 48 PLN 5066 URBAN GROWTH AND FRINGE PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6
 

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Related items of Dokuz Eylul University Regulations of Graduate Education and Exams and related items of Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences Regulations of Education and Code of Practicing Exams are applied for the exams and course grades. The course evaluation criteria are defined for each course by the instructor(s) of the corresponding course and are given in the Course Description Form found in the information package.

Graduation Requirements

Third Cycle (Doctor of Philosophy) Programme is comprised of courses (at least 67 ECTS),Ph.D.Seminar (5 ECTS), Ph. D. Research (18 ECTS) / Ph. D. Thesis (150 ECTS) courses, thesis proposal, doctoral qualifying examination and thesis examination with a total credit of 240 ECTS. Students must have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50 / 4.00 and completed all the courses with at least CB / S / TP grades.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Head of the Department: Prof.Dr.Hülya KOÇ
Phone : +90 (232) 301 84 79 / +90 (232) 301 84 64
e-mail: hulya.koc@deu.edu.tr
Adres: D.E.Ü. Mimarlık Fakültesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü
Tınaztepe Yerleşkesi Doğuş Cad. No:209 35160 Buca/ İZMİR