COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN AND URBAN SYSTEMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5045 URBAN AND URBAN SYSTEMS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MERCAN EFE GÜNEY

Offered to

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

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach what the Urban is. It also aims at investigating how the ideological and cultural and social factors effect the construction of city and to explain the types of urbanization and a set a normative agenda showing what should be in the urban planning.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to list the elements that have played role in the emergence of urban area
2   to describe the urbanization
3   to interpret the history of urbanization
4   to analyze the elements in the emergence of urbanization and their interaction
5   to unite the features of rural and urban production and the reflection of the effects of the one on the other
6   evaluate the importance of urban planning in creating the urban areas

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definitions of the urban and rural areas, and explanation of the differences and similarities among the cities.
2 To explain the effects of modernism and postmodernism on urban area.
3 The explanation of urban types. Pre-industrial and post-industrial.
4 The explanation of theories affecting urban.
5 The explanation of how the urban type effects the usage of area. The emergence of suburbanization.
6 The relationship between urban transportation and urban economy.
7 The models that explains the urban development in pre-industrial period (Burgess Model, Hoyt sector model etc).
8 The emergence of metropolitan and cosmopolitan urban areas and the importance of area evaluation; the emergence of the spatial difference (class )
9 Presentations
10 The determinant power of administrative actors and structures on the urban.
11 Explanation of urban development plans and urban problems (poverty, food security).
12 Explanation of the urbanization of the urban area.
13 Explanation of the urbanization of the urban area.
14 Presentations.

Recomended or Required Reading

Supplementary Book(s): Knox, P. L., & McCarthy, L. (2005). Urbanization: an introduction to urban geography (2nd ed.). New York: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Berry, Brian J.L. and James O. Wheeler, eds. 2005. Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000: Paradigms and Personalities. New York and London: Routledge.
Davis, M. (2004). The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities and the Laws of Chaos. Social Text, 22(4), pp. 9-15.
Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2001). Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. London; New York: Routledge,
pp. 249-303.
Friedmann, J. (1986). The World City Hypothesis. Development & Change, 17(1), 69-83.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is conducted as class discussions and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Listing and description are evaluated with Presentation Evaluation. Analysis, Unification, Interpretation and Evaluation is evaluated with the Take Home which takes the place of Final Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mercan.efe@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10:30-12:00, Wedneday 10:30:12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 7 6 42
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Preparing assignments 1 42 42
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61

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