COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PLANNNING THEORY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5070 PLANNNING THEORY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR EMINE IPEK ÖZBEK

Offered to

City and Regional Planning
M.Sc. City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

This course aims defining planning thought and its practice, presenting planning theories with the circumstances under which they have developed, comprehend actual planning approaches, interpreting the Turkish planning system as a case of practice, analysing the relationships between theory and practice.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to list different planning approaches historically
2   will be able to describe actual planning approaches
3   will be able to interprete the Turkish planning system historically
4   will be able to relate planning to practice
5   will be able to revise the actual planning system

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Early Post-War Planning Theory
2 Normative Theory of Planning, Utopian Comprehensiveness
3 Critique of Post-War Planning Theory
4 Planning Theory in the 1960s
5 The Systems View of Planning and Rational Process Views of Planning
6 Rational Process View of Planning
7 Midterm Examination
8 Planning as a Political Process, Modernism and Urban Protest
9 Advocative Planning
10 Public Participation in Planning
11 Planning Theory from 1970s to 1990s
12 Political Economy Perspectives, Planning Theory after the New Right
13 Paradigm Shifts, modernism and postmodernism
14 Homework/Submission/Presentation: Theoratical Explanations on the Process of Urbanization and institutionalization of planning in Turkey

Recomended or Required Reading

Taylor, N. (2004), Urban Planning Theory Since 1945, Sage Publications, London.
Campbell, S. And Fainstein, S. (Eds), (1996), Readings in Planning Theory, Blackwell,Oxford.
Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures. Students will learn topics by attending and listening the lectures. Students will be asked to prepare their homeworks on the subjects given to them.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + 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

English

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures and discussions over reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ipek.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 9.00-10.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing presentations 1 1 1
Preparing assignments 1 50 50
Final 1 20 20
Midterm 1 20 20
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.41
LO.51