COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN MORPHOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CON 5053 URBAN MORPHOLOGY 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

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NESLIHAN KARATAŞ

Offered to

M.Sc. Urban Conservation Planning
M.Sc. Urban Conservation Planning (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

This course aims at submitting the basic approach and methods used for analysis of urban morphology and gaining a theoretical framework in planning-design works of urban morphology analysis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   will be able to provide required knowledge in order to use methods of morphological analysis
2   will be able to express the basic principles of processes that occurred in the formation and transformation of the built environment
3   will be able to discuss construction of historical environments how to manage in contemporary contexts
4   will be able to explain social and cultural processes that shape urban form through the historical and contemporary contexts with the examples
5   will be able to evaluate approaches that improve the space quality of the built environment and the transformation process of urban form visually.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and elements of urban morphology, the basic concepts in urban morphology.
2 Theoretical foundations, methods and approaches in analysis of urban morphology.
3 Evaluation of urban forms of cities in historical process
4 Factors affecting the city form (natural, technological, economic and social) and impact of urban form to social and economic development.
5 Spatial methods in the examination and analyzing of city pattern
6 Development of urban coding means for shaping of spatial context, urban morphology as a means of design and coding Homework topics will be handed out in this week
7 Midterm Examination
8 Morphological analysis on a selected sample of urban space
9 Morphological analysis on a selected sample of urban space
10 Morphological analysis on a selected sample of urban space
11 Morphological analysis on a selected sample of urban space
12 Morphological analysis on a selected sample of urban space
13 As a result of the analysis to develop a design approach focused on the morphological context
14 As a result of the analysis to develop a design approach focused on the morphological context Students will submit their homework in this week

Recomended or Required Reading

1. M.R.G. Conzen, Conzen, M.P., Peter Lang, (2004) Thinking about urban form: papers on urban morphology , 1932-1998 New York,
2. Bosselman P., (2008), Urban transformation: understanding city design and form , Island Press, Washington, DC: c
3. Morris A.E.J., (1994) History of urban form: before the industrial revolutions , Wiley, New York,
4. Vance J. E., (1990) The continuing city: urban morphology in Western civilization , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
5. Kevin Lynch, (1981) A Theory of Good City Form , The MIT Press, London
6. Kostof, S., (1992) The City Assembled , Little Brown And Company, Honk Kong,
7. Defining Regional Identity: Conceptual Parameters of Urban Morphology , 4th Int. Seminar on UM. University of Birmingham 1997
8. LOZANO, E.E., (1990), Community Design and The Culture of Cities . Cambridge University Press
9. Urban morphology: journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form, 4. cilt,2. sayı -6. cilt,2. Sayı

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures. Students will learn topics by attending and listening the lectures. Homeworks will be given to students and they 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 * 0.40 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Providing, expressing will be measured by midterm examination.
Debating, explaining with examples will be measured by homework.
Evaluating will be measured by final examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

neslihan.karatas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 10.30-12.00; Thursday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 7 2 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 7 2 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 55 55
Preparing group assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 115

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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