COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOWNSCAPE ON ROUTES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5028 TOWNSCAPE ON ROUTES ELECTIVE 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

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TOLGA ÇILINGIR

Offered to

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

Course Objective

This course focuses on routes within and between urban areas and intends to discuss the extent of solutions offered by townscape elements for different scales. The course intends to make discussions upon various visual material, drawn documents and different cases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will be able to define townscape (knowledge)
2   Will be able to list the routes in urban or rural areas within various scales (knowledge)
3   Will be able to analyse visual elements of case study area (analysis)
4   Will be able to develop a project in study area (application)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General discussion of the subject
2 Sociological and psychological factors in route alignments
3 Priorities in route crossings and design criteria.
4 Factors that are to be taken into consideration during building up the relations between routes and points of attraction
5 Routes as separating elements between urban functions
6 The aesthetical critique regarding the functionality of innercity pedestrian and cycling ways in terms of townscape principles
7 Midterm Exam and homework assignments
8 Relationship between townscape and railroads, subway lines and light rail systems
9 Inner-city implementations. Street furniture, orientation systems, signs
10 The circulation routes passing through such urban functions that are open to pedestrian circulation as parks and urban green areas
11 Relations between landscape and transportation links on regional scale.
12 Inner-forestry routes, elements of rural landscape
13 Paper presentation
14 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Facade Stories: Changing Faces of Main Street Storefronts and How to Care for Them, by Ronald Lee Fleming, Hastings House, 1982.
PlaceMakers: Creating Public Art That Tells You Where You Are , by Ronald Lee Fleming and Renata von Tscharner,Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
Planning For Man and Motor, by Paul Ritter, Pergamon Press, 1964.
http://www.townscape-inst.com/corpdesign.html
Lighting in the Townscape, by Graham Phoenix, buildingconservation.com/articles/light/townlight.htm

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In each semester, there will a case study area of townscape on route and the on-site researches will be accomplished. The course intends to make discussions upon various visual material, drawn documents and different cases.

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

The course focuses on routes within and between urban areas and intends to discuss the extent of solutions offered by townscape elements for different scales. The course intends to make discussions upon various visual material, drawn documents and different cases.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tolga.cilingir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 10.00-11.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Design Project 1 12 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Field study 2 6 12
Reading 1 6 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 7 4 28
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 121

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41