COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF THE CITIES AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 4025 HISTORY OF THE CITIES AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖKHAN TENIKLER

Offered to

Public Administration (Evening)
Public Administration

Course Objective

Examining the socio-economic and political structures of cities;being informed about the birth and development processes of cities; and making it possible to analyze urban dynamics under daily conditions also considering the past.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define Urbans' economical, social and spatial experiences.
2   Being able to analyze the reasons which are form urban as structure of capital and capability accumulation.
3   Being able to discuss the effects during urban policies and development of capital cities.
4   Being able to determine structure of kervan and coastal towns and multiculturel urban poltics and transformation of these policies.
5   Being able to understand urban problems and find out solutions according to urban historical phases.
6   Being able to define urban transformation politics during the historical process.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, general information about the course, explanation of the concepts in general terms, evaluation of the importance of the course in the learning plan.
2 Defining the concept of city and an overview of the history of cities
3 Agricultural Revolution and Mesopotamian cities
4 Spread of civilization, Egyptian cities
5 Greek polis
6 Alexander the Great and Roman Period cities, the impact of barbarian societies on cities
7 Medieval Cities
8 Medieval Cities
9 Urban life in Turks
10 industrial city
11 Ottoman Era cities
12 Analysis of the history of cities through the examples of Istanbul and Izmir
13 Information society, modern and post-modern cities
14 General evaluation and reminder, reviewing the degree of achievement of the learning outcomes of the course by making a situation analysis of the period.

Recomended or Required Reading

Fritz Rorig (1945) , Avrupa Şehirlerinin Doğuş ve Gelişme Tarihi , Idare Dergisi, Çev. Cemil Ziya Şanbey, Yıl 16, Sayı 175, Temmuz-Ağustos.

Fritz,Rorig (1946) Avrupa Şehirlerinin Doğuş ve Gelişme Tarihi , Idare Dergisi, Çev. Cemil Ziya Şanbey, Yıl 17, Sayı 181, Temmuz- Ağustos.

Henri Pirene (1983): Ortaçağ Avrupasının Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi, (Çeviren: Uygur Kocabaşoğlu), Iletişim, Istanbul.

Lewis Mumford (2007):Tarih Boyunca Kent Kökenleri, Geçirdiği Dönüşümler ve Geleceği, (Çeviren: Gürol Koca, Tamer Tosun), Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Educational Methodology implemented in this Course
To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 18 18
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.14444
LO.24344
LO.344
LO.444
LO.5444
LO.644

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