COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN URBAN PLANNING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5064 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN 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

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUHAMMED AYDOĞAN

Offered to

M.Sc. City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning (Non-Thesis)
City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims at defining public participation, presenting theories of democracy with the circumstances under which they have developed, getting to comprehend public participation approaches in planning, interpreting the participation processes in Turkish planning system as a case of practice, analysing the relationships between participation and democratic planning, proposing a normative participation model and revising the actual one.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, students, will be able to define public participation (Knowledge),
2   Will be able to list different democracy approaches historically (Knowledge),
3   Will be able to describe public participation approaches (Comprehension),
4   Will be able to interprete the participation models in Turkey (Application),
5   Will be able to relate participation to democracy (Analysis),
6   Will be able to propose a new (normative) participation model (Synthesis),
7   Will be able to revise the actual participation system (Evaluation).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Public Participation Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Typologies of Democracy
3 The Meaning of Public Participation in Different Planning Approaches
4 Public Participation Methods in Planning and Design
5 Local Participation and Place Identity
6 Midterm Examination
7 Participation Mechanisms in Turkey Homework topics will be handed out in this week.
8 The Crisis of Representational Democracy
9 Participatory Practices in Turkey
10 Urban Social Movements
11 Homework/Submission/Presentation Students will be required to submit their homeworks and present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
12 A Normative Model of Public Participation
13 Plannig for Cosmopolis: a new paradigm
14 On the Revision of the Turkish Participation System in Planning

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Douglass, M. and Friedmann, J. (Eds.) (1998),
Cities for Citizens: planning and the rise of civil society in a global age, John Wiley and Sons, New York. Sandercock, L. (1998),
Towards Cosmopolis: planning for multicultural cities, John Wiley and Sons, New York.
Supplementary Book:
Hague, C. And Jenkins, P. (Eds), (2005),
Place Identity, Participation and Planning,
Routledge, London. Materials: Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures. Students will learn topics by attending and listening the lectures. Homeworks will be given to students in 7th Week and they will be asked to prepare their homeworks on the subjects given to them.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Defining and Listing (Knowledge) will be measured by Midterm Examination Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework Relating (Analysis), Proposing (Synthesis) and Revising (Evaluation) will be measured by Final Examination.

Assessment Criteria

Defining and Listing (Knowledge) will be measured by Midterm Examination Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework Relating (Analysis), Proposing (Synthesis) and Revising (Evaluation) will be measured by Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

m.aydogan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 9.00-10.20

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 3 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

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
LO.71

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