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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
KMY 2010	URBAN ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICS	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YUNUS EMRE ÖZER

Offered to

Public Administration (Evening)
Public Administration

Course Objective

- To examine socia-culturel, economic and politic substructure of cities and urbanization phenomena and to know changing definitions.
- To understand the connections of migration-emigration and urbanization- and urban politics.
- To define the urbanization process in Turkey, to know relations between settlement theories and modern settlements.
- To evaluate urbanization movements and urban administration with climate changes and international interaction.
- To do analysis in phenomena of unlawful-developing urbanization in the aspect of spatial and biopower.
- To investigate relations between settlements and human rights, to learn the topics of city safety, urban rights.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To see the relation between sustainable cities and human rights
2	TO know healty cities and examples in Turkey in particular
3	To understand the impacts of changes in administrative strategies on urban structures and their practice areas
4	To know logical settlement policies to know basic supporting ideas of efficiency n services and democratic participation elements
5	To know city safety and crimes committed against city, to develop socal and administrative strategies to eliminate administrative weakness.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Concepts of Urbanization and City, Urbanization Theories, Public Service
2	Urbanization Phenomena in Turkey Causes of Urbanization
3	City and City-Dweller, Urbanization Politics in the Planned Period.
4	Sustainable and Livable Healthy Cities, Theory and Practice examples, the studies of Urban and Regional Planning, Legal Application Tools of Urban Policy
5	Concept of Region and Need for Planning on Regional Scale and its types
6	Service webs in big cities and metropolitan cities in Turkey
7	Inter-regional Imbalances and Development of Society Local Social Capital
8	Midterm Exam
9	City Safety Rights of City-Dwellers, National formal reports
10	Residance, slam, Urban Transformation, Biopower politics
11	Urban Transformation, Biopower politics and migrations
12	Coastal Cities and Border Cities
13	Effeciency of pressure groups in Urban Administration
14	Impact of climate changes in Urban dministration and the examples in the world
15	Principal aspects in Strategix Plans of Urban Administration and examples from Trukey (Izmir)
16	Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Zerrin Toprak (2008) , Kent Yönetimi ve Politikası, Birleşik Yayıncılık, Izmir, 2008.
Zerrin Toprak (2011); Yerel Yönetimlerde Başkanın Politik Lider Rolü , Prof.Dr.Ilhan Özay a Armağan, Istanbul.s.297-314 erişim: http://www.iudergi.com/tr/index.php/hukukmecmua
Ruşen Keleş (2018), Kentleşme Politikası, Imge Kitabevi Yayınları.
Yusuf Şahin (2018), Kentleşme Politikası, Ekin Kitabevi Yayınları.
Zerrin Toprak (2012) "Kamu Yöneticilerinde Afet Yönetimi Algısının Önemi" , Acil ve Afet Tıbbı Dergisi, Istanbul
Kişisel web sayfasında yer alan dokumanlar
Şehircilik Şurası 2017

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
To analyze the given case studies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	MTEG	MIDTERM GRADE	MTEG * 1
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	3	42
Preparation for midterm exam	1	12	12
Preparation for final exam	1	18	18
Preparing assignments	1	20	20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	2	28
Final	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13
LO.1	1	1		1		1	1
LO.2	1	1		1
LO.3	1	1		1		1		1	1	1	1	1
LO.4	1		1	1	1	1	1
LO.5	1	1		1	1	1

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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