COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CITY PLANNING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIM 4001 CITY PLANNING COMPULSORY 1 1 0 2

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞEBNEM GÖKÇEN

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

This course intends to introduce students with concepts of urban history and planning, let them become familiar to urban planning techniques and getting engaged in urban planning practice at a case study area, which altogether targets at giving architectural students the skills in practice of city planning.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explaining various concepts concerned with city planning
2   Explaining the history of planning in broad terms
3   Having knowledge in city planning techniques
4   Defining different land use types in cities
5   Formulating design approaches for varying urban land uses.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to city planning
2 Urban development models and city macroform
3 Intersection of architecture and city planning diciplines and urban design
4 Urbanisation and city planning process in Turkey
5 Plan hierarchy, relations between scales and data collecting technics
6 Basic Technical Tools in Planning: Building and population densities exercise, estimation of GAR and FAR
7 Basic urban land use and design principles: Transportation
8 Basic urban land use and design principles: Housing areas and working areas
9 Project field research
10 Midterm Exam
11 Basic urban land use and design principles: Open and green spaces
12 Project presentations
13 Project presentations
14 Inferences of project presentations and conclusions

Recomended or Required Reading

Watson, Platus, Shibley, 2003, Time Saver Standards for Urban Design, Mc. Graw Hill
-Lynch, K. 1984, Good City Form, MIT Press
-Alexander, Neis, Anninou, and King (1987) A New Theory of Urban Design
-Kostof, S. (1992) The city assembled Thames and Hudson, London

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course consists of lectures, presentations and designing activities

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + FINS * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Listing and Explaining activities are assessed by the Interim Exam.
Having knowledge of and Defining activities are assessed by the Term Project.
Formulating designs is assessed by the Final Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Lecture will going on course texts of instructors, conferences and applications.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mercan.efe@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Tutorials 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 9 1 9
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 59

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15
LO.253
LO.345
LO.44
LO.54

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