COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAYAT ZENGIN ÇELIK

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

The main aim of the course is to explain the concept of smart city to students and to introduce the technologies used to make cities sustainable, efficient, safe and livable. This course emphasizes the use of information and communication technologies
in urban areas, as well as exploring solutions to make cities smarter and more innovative. It aims to introduce tools that can be used to produce studies that enable urban systems such as infrastructure, transportation, energy, water management, waste management, security and services to function more effectively using advanced technologies and data analytics. In addition to the perspective expected to be gained through theoretical explanations, it is aimed to design virtual cities with computer games. In addition, it is expected that students will gain the techniques and perspective that they can integrate into project courses,
competitions and various applications.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

References:
- Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, 2013, Anthony M. Townsend

- Smart Cities: Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition, 2014, Mark Deakin ve Husam Al Waer

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures on the content of the course will be made through interactive presentations. In addition to presentations, an understanding of student participation will be adopted with practice examples in the course. Modular teaching technique will be used.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes of defining concepts and describing them with examples will be evaluated in the midterm exam. Relating the subjects, criticizing the examples and proposing alternative solutions will be evaluated in the assignment and the final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hayat.zengin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes