COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ECOLOGICAL TOTALITY, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND URBAN APPROACHES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5134 ECOLOGICAL TOTALITY, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND URBAN APPROACHES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEDIHA BURCU SILAYDIN

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

This course intends to understand the interrelations between concepts of ecology -sustainability and urban space, to define the main principles in ecologically-sensitive formation of urban and architectural space, to explain how and under which objective framework the organization of space can be influential upon urban ecology and to question the broader picture underlying the different local/regional/national experience of space.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   define the concepts of urban ecology,
2   define the process of ecologically-sensitive planning and design,
3   understand the ongoing practice of different design disciplines on ecology,
4   technically analyze the existing cases of ecological design,
5   criticize the current approaches in eco-sensitive planning, design and architecture.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts: city - ecology - sustainability
2 Ecological totality: Conceptual Investigation
3 Spatial organizations and ecology relations: problems (approach based)
4 Spatial organizations and ecology relations: problems (implementation based)
5 City and ecology : ecologically-sensitive principles of planning and design -1
6 City and ecology : ecologically-sensitive principles of planning and design- 2
7 Urban ecosystems and spatial organization: urban scale and planning
8 Mid-term exam (Mid-homework submission)
9 Urban ecosystems and spatial organization: urban scale and urban design -1
10 Urban ecosystems and spatial organization: urban scale and urban design -2
11 Urban ecosystems and spatial organization: building scale and architecture; Urban ecology in global society: case studies
12 Criticizing of current urban-spatial organizations; Urbanization: social and environmental context
13 Sustainability and cities: urban quality, urban health and citizen rights
14 Final Homework

Recomended or Required Reading

Environmental Science, A Global Concern. Cunningham and Saigo. 2000.
Platt, R. H. 2004. Toward ecological cities: adapting to the 21st Century metropolis. Environment 46(5):10-27.
McGranahan, G., and D. Satterthwaite. 2002. The environmental dimensions of sustainable development for cities. Geography 87(3):213-226.
May, R. 2004. Editorial on the role of humanities in urban ecology: the case of St. Petersburg. Urban Ecosystems 7:7-15.
van Kamp, I., et al. 2003. Urban environmental quality and human well-being: towards a conceptual framework and demarcation of concepts; a literature study. Landscape and Urban Planning 65:5-18.
de Hollander, A., and B. Staatson. 2003. Health, environment and quality of life: an epidemiological perspective on urban development. Landscape and Urban Planning 65:53-62.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course is carried out by topic expressions, reading, classroom discussion, homework support, and discussions conducted with presentation of homework. Homework is seen as both the method of assessment and an important learning method of the course. Homework topics will be selected to support learning outcomes of the course.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

First draft of homework substitutes mid-term exam, and final paper of homework substitutes final.

Assessment Criteria

Defining and understanding activities will be assessed by the mid-term exam (First draft of homework).
Analysis, interpretation activities and critical analysis will be assessed by the homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

burcu.silaydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparing Individual Homework (Midterm) 1 50 50
Preparing Individual Homework (Final) 1 90 90
Submission of homework 2 2 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.411
LO.51

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