CRP 401-402 Planning Studio VII-VIII (4-8)8
Analytical and planning studies of a metropolitan city or region are conducted in the fourth year planning studio that concentrates on thematic or place-bound problematics of the city in focus. After analytical studies, diverse groups work on different problems (centre, housing, image and many other components) of the city under scrutiny to gain further skills in the use of planning and implementation tools, economic analyses, social problems, urban engineering or urban design.
Prerequisite for CRP 401: CRP 302
Prerequisite for CRP 402: CRP 401

CRP 412 Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving (3-0)3
Develops new ways of defining urban, architectural and industrial design problems and explores methods of generating new and innovative solutions.

CRP 414 Urban and Regional Project Management (3-0)3
Project Cycle Management; Logical Framework Analysis; social Impact Assessment; Project Design; Negotiation and Stakeholder Analysis; Monitoring and Assessment; Financial Estimation and Evaluation.

CRP 415 Social Aspects of Planning (3-0)3
Seminar Topics: Behavior, urban environment and planning; territoriality, micro, meso, macro space behavior; environmental values, needs as related to contextual environment; interpersonal interaction; environmental stress factors; aesthetics, quantity and quality of life; planning/designing for people and/or with people.

CRP 418 The Theory of Economic and Spatial Development (3-0)3
The concept of development, different theories of economic development, economic development and planning, regional development theories, regional development theories and practice in the European Union, in different European countries and Turkey.

CRP 419 Visions and Strategies for Socio-Spatial Development (3-0)3
Strategic planning and future visioning; scenario writing approach; social marketing and negotiation processes; strategies in geopolitics; strategies for stakeholder society and spatial development strategies.

CRP 421 Population Dynamics and Planning (3-0)3
Introductory course to familiarize the students with the field of demography. Provide the students with the basic principles, methods and techniques of demography which are especially relevant for the planners. Both the conceptual and technical issues. Comparative examples from developing and developed countries. Mainly age and sex structure, vital rates and aggregate population projection.
Prerequisite: Instructor's consent

CRP 423 Computer Application of Statistical Techniques to City and Regional Planning (3-0)3
Application of statistical methods and techniques (which are taught in STAT 201 and 202) to city and regional planning problems. Package program of SPSSWIN. Mainly, descriptive univariate statistics, inferential statistics, chi-square analysis, correlation and regression analyses. Several homework.

CRP 425 Application of Demographic Techniques to Turkish Data (3-0)3
Application of the demographic methods and techniques to the real world Turkish data. Specific province as a case study. Package programs of SPSSWIN and FIVSIN. Interactive use of computer. Discuss the changes in the output when the input data are changed. Mainly, aggregate and disaggregate (cohort-survival) population projection. Several homework.

CRP 433 Economics of Development and the Economy of Turkey (3-0)3
Different theories and schools of thought in development economics. The evolution of the economic structure and the planning experience during the Republican period in the light of these general theories.

CRP 437 Urban History Workshop (3-0)3
Methodological issues in urban history; various theories and models of the city; comparative case studies from changing structures and networks in different regions of the world; socio-morphological transformations in the 19th and 20th century European, Middle Eastern Far Eastern and American cities.

CRP 438 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Planning Practice (3-0)3
Understanding of information systems, basic concepts, introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), data conversion, available technology, hardware, software, peripherals, GIS as a tool for planners, use of GIS in planning. Basic project design steps for data conversion, raster to vector conversion and GIS, database design, automation of data, query and analysis of spatial data. Sample projects, computer applications.

CRP 444 Application Development in Geographic Information Systems (3-0)3
Developing site and user-specific GIS applications. An overview of basic GIS tools and scripting for developing graphical user interfaces. The design of application development and case studies where students are expected to develop their own applications.

CRP 450 New Spaces of Growth and Production (3-0)3
Recent issues on geography of production, new spaces of growth, and changing spatial organization of the world system. General discussion on dynamics of the changes in spatial organization of production. The theoretical explanations on the emergence of new nodes of growth. Industrial districts, learning regions, border regions, nodes urban areas as nodes of networks, technology based developing areas.

CRP 451 Models in Urban Planning I (3-0)3
Introduces modeling as the logical outcome of the systems approach and emphasizes its increasing role in the planning field since 1960s. The course aims to give a basic background for the model building process. Specific topics include; systems theory, mapping theory, theory-model relationships, types of urban models, the spatial interaction (gravity) model.

CRP 452 Models in Urban Planning II (3-0)3
By using the entropy maximization method, generalizes the classical gravity model and thus introduces the family of spatial interaction models. Reviews the Lowry-Garin model and other derivatives. Considers also some selected urban models. Emphasizes the calibration methods, gives worked examples and encourages the computer applications. Discusses how they can be used as location models in urban policy making. Compares first and second generation of urban models, evaluates the present trends.

CRP 455 Aesthetics and Human Experience in Urban Design (3-0)3
An overview of environmental psychology. Issues of environmental perception and cognition, elements and structure of mental maps, orientation and wayfinding, environmental aesthetics, diversity and environment, use of psychological information to evaluate environments, programming for design for human use, implementation tools of environmental attributes salient to human use. Self-managing in -depth group discussions on environment and human experience reflecting on case studies.

CRP 466 Labor Market Dynamics in Global Restructuring and Spatial Transformation (3-0)3
Presents the current issues and debates on the interrelations between labor market and urban planning. Provides an overview of various approaches within the field of labor market analyses in the context of global restructuring along with an emphasis on their relevance for urban social transformation.

CRP 471 Principles of Housing (3-0)3
Definition of housing as a specific commodity; the concepts of housing need and housing demand; forms of housing provision, characteristics of housebuilding industry; housing finance systems; state housing policies: subsidizing housing, rent control, social rented housing; unauthorized housing.

CRP 476 Housing Research (3-0)3
Research projects are formulated on relevant subjects and presented to the class and completed in the light of class discussion.

CRP 479 Implementational Aspects of Urban Planning with Reference to Legal and Administrative Issues (3-0)3
Aims to present current issues and debates on the planning legislation related to coastal areas, natural and built environment, privatization of public land, touristic development and similar subjects all of which are closely attached to the implementation of plans and the practice of planners involved in professional life.
Prerequisite: Instructor's consent

CRP 483 Policy Design and Evaluation (3-0)3
Introduction to policy analysis, design and evaluation. The process of public policy making, the analytical options open to the policy analyst, the key concepts and arguments of policy and program design, the methods and practice of social policy/program evaluation, new directions in policy field.

CRP 485 Evolving Gender Issues in Contemporary Urban Planning (3-0)3
Presents the current issues and debates on the interrelations between gender issues and the urban planning discipline. Provides and overview of various approaches within feminist geography and their relevance for a new agenda in urban planning.

CRP 488 Institutional aspects of Urban and Regional Planning (3-0)3
An overview of globalization and the new economy. Issues of institutional change and governance. In-depth discussions on regional and urban governance together with the analysis of case studies.

CRP 490 Summer Practice: Municipal, Public or Private Planning Office NC
Students work in private planning offices or public bodies, especially in municipalities, in order to familiarize themselves with the current planning practice.

CRP 495 Urban Political Analysis (3-0)3
Structured around the urban life. Embraces power and politics from the very emergence of the human settlements. Introduction to the basic concepts and theories of political power, state, local state and their analysis in urban context.

CRP 499 Seminar in Selected Urban Political Issues (3-0)3
Seminar course around the contemporary topics in urban political context. The aim of the course is to concentrate students' previous theoretical knowledge on different urban issues; to reexamine and evaluate the current urban problems of our cities by using the frameworks developed by those theories; to test the relevance and the validity of different paradigms in this context. Major areas of concern are politics of urban spatial structuration, urban service provision, land ownership, social movements and the politics of urban planning issues.