Third Year Courses

CRP 301-302 Planning Studio V-VI (4-8)8
In the third year studio the cartographic and quantitative data compiled in the CRP 290 Summer Practice as well as the local data and observations obtained through a short excursion to the study area will be evaluated together. The third year planning studio will be conducted in two phases. The first is a detailed urban study devised to comprehend urban structures and to identify major planning issues. The aim of this first phase is to define major planning goals to be pursued in the second phase. The second phase constitutes an exercise to simulate the process of structure planning.
Prerequisite for CRP 301: CRP 202
Prerequisite for CRP 302: CRP 301

CRP 311 Evolution of Turkish Cities (3-0)3
Discusses the classical Ottoman structure and its spatial reflections, the characteristics of the Ottoman city, the spatial consequences of the developments in 19th century, spatial policies adopted after the Independence War, Ankara as a planning experiment, institutionalization of planning in Turkey and the developments of the post-war period.

CRP 332 Planning Economics (3-0)3
Evaluation of projects in the planning process. Cost-benefit analysis as a project evaluation technique. Alternative evaluation methods in urban and regional planning. Welfare consequence and distribution problems in urban and regional plans and projects. Reniew of certain studies of plan evaluation.

CRP 333 Urban Design Workshop I (1-4)3
Aims at familiarizing students with the form and functions of the spatial/physical components of the built environment, via intensive drawing sessions through the study of selected cases.

CRP 334 Urban Design Workshop II (1-4)3
Deals with the understanding and analysis of urban elements such as the street, the square, and buildings and their interrelations with the urban system. Special emphasis given to buildings in terms of their types, forms and functions.

CRP 335 Review Topics in Economics (3-0)3
Review of essential economic concepts and methods by a study of contemporary social and urban problems. Adoption of an integrated framework to analyze urban issues like housing, transportation, education, health, crime etc. Efficiency and equity criteria. Spatial market system and spatial market failure to handle the regional problem. Income distribution. 'Market vs. state' arguments.

CRP 341 Urban Economics (3-0)3
Economic theory and purposes of urban planning; functions of urban planning in market economies. Formation and distribution of value in the physical environment; approaches in the explanation of rent relations; measurement of value in urban land and property. Behavioral patterns in property markets; investment, development, renewal and rehabilitation decisions. Planning decisions to monitor values and behavior in property markets; implications of development rights, tenure forms, rent control and "other channels of control".

CRP 351 Urban Transport Planning (3-0)3
Designed to cover a whole range of issues related to urban transportation. Main themes are context and definition of urban transportation planning, characteristics of urban travel, transportation planning and decision making, demand and supply analyses. Transport economics and transport for a sustainable future are examined. Issues regarding the urban land/use, location choice of urban activities and transportation also analyzed.

CRP 362 Urban Infrastructure (3-0)3
An introduction to urban environmental issues and network type service systems. The planning procedure, design criteria and performance characteristics of the Bank of Province's urban water supply practice, implementations of urban physical planning, different types of land suitable analysis techniques through 'multicriteria' qualitative techniques.

CRP 371 Planning Theory and Techniques (3-0)3
Development of planning idea and thought, differentiation between planning and design, planning processes, urban planning programming, planning techniques and ethics.

CRP 382 Legal and Administrative Aspects of Planning (3-0)3
A broad theoretical approach on the subject of the administrative and the organizational approach to the process of planning. A review of legal concepts in Turkish legislative, judiciary and administrative systems. Study of the urban planning process in relation to central and local governments. Analysis of planning and development laws, by-laws and regulations and their usage.

CRP 390 Summer Practice: Data Collection for Studio and Computer Presentation (3-0)3
Students gather and analyze the data required for the third and fourth year studio work. Data analyzed and archived in computers for the use in forthcoming studio work.



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