COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RECREATION AND URBAN DESIGN RELATIONS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5132 RECREATION AND URBAN DESIGN RELATIONS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ERDAL ONUR DIKTAŞ

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

This course dwells upon the concept and phenomenon of Recreation as one of the fundamental components of physical planning and intends to focus on the scale of urban design in order to define the basic principles in recreation planning while questioning the emerging urban / architectural environments.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be define the concept of Re-creation
2   Students will be describe the basic components making up the need for recreation in context of urban design
3   Studnets will be analyze the ways of approaching the phenomenon of recreation in formation of urban/architectural space
4   Students will be formulate recreation-based principles and strategies in urban design
5   Students will be evaluate the ways of how urban design principles can take regard of the phenomenon of recreation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Conceptual framework: the phenomenon of recreation Reading list will be given to the students
2 Conceptual framework: basic components of recreation
3 Relationship between the concept of recreation and recreation planning : principles
4 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : principles
5 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : basic functional relations in different cases Homework subjects will be given
6 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : principles and different cases in landscape design
7 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : principles and different cases in urban furniture
8 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : principles and different cases of special design areas
9 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : principles and different cases of special design areas
10 Relationship between the concept of recreation and urban design : principles and different cases of special design areas
11 Place of recreation in design process. evaluation of problems and potentials for the future
12 Homeworks Submission / Presentation
13 Homeworks Presentation
14 General assessment on relationship between recreation and urban design

Recomended or Required Reading

- Harnik (2010), Urban Green Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, Island Press
- Shaftoe (2006), Convivial Urban Spaces-Creating Effective Public Spaces, Earthscan Publ.
- Low, Taplin, Scheld (2005), Rethinking Urban Parks Public Space and Cultural Diversity, University of Texas Press
- Dreiseitl, Grau (edits) (2005) New Waterscapes- Planning, Building and Designing with Water, Birkhauser Publishers for Architecture

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, readings and discussions.

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

Defining and understanding activities will be assessed by the mid-term exam. Analysis and formulation activities will be assessed by the assignment. Evaluation will be assessed by the final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdal.diktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 13:30-14:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 2 22
Student Presentations 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 3 18
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 75 75
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 177

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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