COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN PLANNING STUDIO

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5068 URBAN PLANNING STUDIO ELECTIVE 4 4 0 14

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR KEMAL MERT ÇUBUKÇU

Offered to

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

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to define urban problems, choose appropriate techniques, collect and organize data, analyse data, and produce alternative solutions to the defined solution. The evaluation of the alternative techniques is also among the aims of the course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   will be able to describe planning problems (knowledge)
2   will be able to list different planning techniques (knowledge)
3   will be able to defiine and comprehend urban planning problems (comprehension)
4   will be able to collect and interprete the data (application)
5   will be able to relate planning techniques and analyses to information (analysis)
6   will be able to propose a solutions to urban problems (synthesis)
7   will be able to compare and evaluate alternative solutins (evaluation)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Site selection
2 Problem definition
3 Introducing planning techniques and choosing the appropriate ones
4 Data collection and processing
5 Data collection and processing
6 Data Analysis
7 Data Analysis
8 Midterm Presentations
9 Assessing the analysis results
10 Developing solution alternatives
11 Developing solution alternatives
12 Evaluating the solution alternatives
13 Evaluating the solution alternatives
14 Urban policy analysis
15 Final Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook:
Berke, P., Godschalk, D. R. and Kaiser, E. J. (2006), Urban Land Use Planning,
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.
Supplemantary Book:
Campbell, S. And Fainstein, S. (Eds), (1996), Readings in Planning Theory, Blackwell,
Oxford.
Materials:
Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, theoretical presentations, data mining and collection, data analysis, discussing results.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 COM 1 COMMITTEE 1
2 COM COMMITTEE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE COM 1* 0.40 + COM * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

One midterm presentation and one final presentation. The presentations are followed by a Q&A session.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is required.
2. Plagiarism and all other means of cheating are strictly prohibited.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mert.cubukcu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Fridays 13:30-14:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 4 52
Practice (Care Plan) 13 4 52
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 100 100
Preparation for final exam 1 100 100
Midterm 1 4 4
Final 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 351

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.211
LO.31
LO.41
LO.511
LO.61
LO.71