COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF URBAN PLANNING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5055 LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF URBAN PLANNING 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 EYLEM BAL

Offered to

M.Sc. City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning (Non-Thesis)
City and Regional Planning Scientific Preparatory (Msc Without Thesis)
City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning Scientific Preparatory (Msc)
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims at giving general conceptual knowledge pertaining to urban governance and planning law, analysing the economic, political and spatial processes underlying the legislation of urban governance and city planning in Turkey, defining the new actors leading the planning practice, discussing the legislation concerning the urban governance and city planning in the axis of post-2000 neo-liberal policies in Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining the basic relationship between the city and the spheres of governance and law,
2   Explaining the economic, political and spatial processes underlying the legislation of urban governance and city planning in Turkey,
3   Describing the new actors leading the planning practice in Turkey
4   Explaining the relationship between planning and public interest,
5   Defining the relationship between the neoliberal restructuring process of the post-2000 period in Turkey and the legislation concerning the urban governance and city planning,
6   Explaining the legislation concerning the urban governance and city planning in the post-2000 period in Turkey

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relationship between the city and the spheres of governance and law.
2 The development of the legislation concerning urban governance and city planning in Turkey in the pre-1980 period and in the period between 1980-2000
3 The background of the legislation concerning urban governance and city planning in the axis of neo-liberal policies in post-2000 period
4 Discussions on the development of a new by-law in the post-2000 period
5 Conceptual meaning of public interest. The relationship between planning and public interest on the basis of the related acts and items existing in legislation
6 The changing role of the state in the post-2000 period and the urban governance. Related legal arrangements in the sphere of urban governance
7 The new actors of planning in the post-2000 period (TOKI-OIB, etc.)
8 Legal arrangements in the coastal areas in the post-2000 period
9 Legal arrangements in tourism areas in the post-2000 period
10 Legal arrangements in conservation areas in the post-2000 period
11 Legal arrangements in urban regeneration areas in the post-2000 period
12 Legal arrangements in the sphere of regional planning in the post-2000 period
13 Researches for the homework assignment
14 Presentation of the homework assignments

Recomended or Required Reading

Göksu, E. (2006). Yeni Yasal Düzenlemelerin Koruma Eylemleri Açısından Taşıdığı Riskler ve Fırsatlar, Kent Planlama ve Koruma Etkinlikleri I Koruma Sempozyumu, 80-93. TMMOB Şehir Plancıları Odası Yayını: Ankara.
Mengi, A. ve Keleş, R. (2003). Imar hukukuna giriş. Ankara: Imge Kitabevi.
Ataay, F. ve Acar, E. (2008). Devletin yeniden yapılandırılması ve yerelleşme. Iktisat Dergisi, (500), 27-37.
Ataay, F. (2008). Neoliberalizm ve muhafazakar demokrasi 2000 li yıllarda Türkiye de siyasal değişimin dinamikleri,Ankara: De ki Yayınları.
Azrak, Ü. (2002). Kamu Yararı Kavramı ve Planlama, TMMOB Mimarlar Odası, Ulusal Fiziki Planlama Seminerleri
(18-19 Ocak 2002).
Bal, E. (2011). Türkiye de 2000 Sonrası Neoliberal Politikalar Çerçevesinde Imar Mevzuatındaki Değişimler ve Yeni Kentleşme Pratikleri: Istanbul Örneği. (Yayınlanmamış doktora tezi.) Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi/Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Izmir.






Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures and reading list.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 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 explaining will be measured by homework assignment.
Defining, explaining and describing will be measured by Final Examination

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures and discussions over lecture notes and reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ipek.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparing assignments 1 60 60
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
0
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61