COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICS

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 GÖKHAN TENIKLER

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 Türkiye, 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 Türkiye 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 Introduction, general information about the course, explanation of the concepts in general terms, evaluation of the importance of the course in the learning plan.
2 Urbanization and City Concepts
3 Classification of Urbanization Reasons, urban theories
4 Urbanization policy, quality of life in different economic systems
5 Region, interregional imbalance, regional planning
6 Urban planning, rural development
7 Security and urban security
8 housing policy
9 Slum
10 coastal policy
11 Urban transformation
12 Disasters and cities
13 Resilient cities, smart cities
14 General evaluation and reminder, reviewing the degree of achievement of the learning outcomes of the course by making a situation analysis of the period.

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
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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

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