COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISING URBAN SPACE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 2374 PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISING URBAN SPACE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course intends to aid in conceiving organization principles of urban space, covering environment-friendly spatial alignment tools for quality of life and further experiencing use of design principles on a case study area to be determined.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define concept of urban space and determine those factors that define space (conception)
2   To analyze various examples for quality of urban space (conception and analysis)
3   To interpret urban design projects (implementation) and bring positive or negative critiques (analysis)
4   To evaluate and develop principles of organizing urban space (evaluation and syntesis)
5   To analyze existing system frameworks on a given case (analysis), to make designs (application).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concept of urban space.
2 Factors that define space; impacts of urban space upon life and nature. Determination of term papers.
3 Evaluations on examples of urban space quality
4 Space syntax, space transitions
5 Midterm Examination
6 Urban design projects: Cases from Turkey and the World.
7 Urban design competitions and urban spaces
8 Squares and streets
9 Sustainable and accessible arrangements in urban space
10 Analysis of space through capital, ideology and power. Harvey, Castells, Lefebvre's politics of space
11 Presentations of assignments - 1
12 Presentations of assignments - 2
13 General evaluations and discussion of assignments
14 Urban / rural (village) design guides
15 Final Examination Week

Recomended or Required Reading

Kentsel Tasarım ve Uygulamalar Sempozyumları (1,2,3 ve 4) Kitapları
Rossi, A., Şehrin Mimarisi, Kanat Kitap, 2006
Gökgür, P., Kentsel Mekanda Kamusal Alanın Yeri, Bağlam Yayınları, Istanbul, 2008.
Frey, H., Designing The City, Spon Press, London and New York, 1999.
Tarihi Kentlerde Planlama /Düzenleme Sorunları (11.Kolokyum Kitabı), BIB Matbaası Ankara, 1989
Tümer, G., Bir Başka Mimarlık, Mimarlar Odası Izmir Şb. Yayınları, Izmir, 1993.
Günay, B. Türkiye Mimarlığı, Gelenek, Yöre, Doğu, Batı, ŞPO, Ankara, 2005.
Bademli, R., Kentsel Planlama ve Tasarım Öğrencilerine Notlar, ŞPO, Ankara, 2005.
Kentsel tasarım konulu çeşitli periyodik yayınlar.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be taught through lectures, discussions and homework presentations developed within the course.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50
4 FINS FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.50 + FINS * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining and determining activities (conception), covering various cases on quality of urban space, their analysis (conception and analysis) and critiques (application and analysis) will be measured by the final exam and development of urban spatial analysis and organization principles (evaluation and design) will be measured by term papers.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be held as lectures and visual presentations. The topics will be further focused in related term papers, where the conception level of students can be tested. Furthermore, topics discussed in lectures will be further studied as term papers and conception level of students will be examined.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tolga.cilingir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 2 22
Tutorials 0 2 0
Student Presentations 2 2 4
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 1 13 13
Preparing presentations 1 9 9
Field study 1 9 9
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 4 4
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

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.11
LO.211
LO.311
LO.4111
LO.5111