CP 501-502 Planning Studio I-II (4-8)8

This studio covers cases in the formation, use and control of urban environment. Subjects are chosen preferably, with an aim to seize opportunities in the advancement of forms of Turkish urban life. Current real world issues formulated and introduced as major problematic areas, constitute the bases for all group and individual work. Design tasks are defined so as to find relevant solution to typical problems, rather than unique solutions to 'location specific'' cases. Methods of study in studio work may cover all of the following:

• theoretical and empirical field surveys
• collection, processing and analyses of data
• prescription, design and evaluation of planning proposals through projects.

Spatial, organizational and design solutions are encouraged with special emphasis to presentations in the visual media. Through work organization and specialization, the planning studio also acts as the generator and motivator of the individual research and thesis topics. CP 516 Seminar in Urban Social Theory and Planning (3-0)3

Seminar Topics: Analysis of the planning process; ideological framework of planning; role of planner in a changing world; community involvement; public and private participation in planning; maintenance and sustainability of urban plans.

CP 517 Issues in Urban Archaeology (3-0)3

The scope of urban archaeology, international-national archaeological heritage policies, integrated protection policies, non-destructive survey techniques, data management, archaeological impact studies. Studying spatial characteristics of archaeological potentials in historic towns, handling archaeological heritage underneath the urban areas in planning matters, creative solutions for the management and presentation of archaeological heritage in historic towns, project appraisal in heritage management.

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CP 522 Methods in Urban Planning Research (3-0)3

Philosophy and Methodology in Geography; the meaning of explanation, scientific explanation, the model of natural science, problems of explanation in the social sciences and history, explanation in geography; the role of theories, lows and models in explanation in geography, model languages for geographic explanation. Models for description in geography, models for explanation in geography.

CP 524 Computer Application of Advanced Statistical Techniques to City and Regional Planning (3-0)3

Application of advanced statistical methods and techniques to city and regional planning. Package program of SPSSWIN. Mainly, regionalization and grouping: analysis of variance and covariance, discriminant a., logistic regression, factor analysis and cluster analysis. Several homeworks. Previous enrollment in CP 423 is not pre-requisite, but highly recommended.

CP 527 Modernity, Postmodernity and Urban Studies (3-0)3

The origins of modernity and Enlightenment thought, secularization of power, the birth of social sciences, binary oppositions of modernity. The birth of 'postmodern condition', poststructuralist critique of modern subjectivity, language and representation, time and space (history and geography) in modern and postmodern thought, postmodern politics and conceptions of democracy, local/global dichotomy, locality as a political unit, globalization and dynamics of urban change, postmodernity as a spatial phenomenon, space and society, space as a defining category of postmodernism, planning and modernism/postmodernism debate, urban studies and postmodernism, the significance of postmodern debates for urban studies, planning and geography.

CP 531 Topics in Planning Economics (3-0)3

Urban Micro-economics; urban land use allocation; Residential land use and housing market; Economics of Urban Transport. Economics of the environment. Ecological concepts; the common property and environmental externalities; cost-benefit and muticriteria analysis for environmental design and management. Urban Public Economics; Rationale behind the government intervention; the definition of government output, local public goods; pricing and investment decisions; Urban public finance.

CP 534 Introduction to the Analysis of Public Goods (3-0)3

The evolution of public expenditures, the functioning of the public and private economy. The characteristics of public goods and methods of analysis, the price formation and decision making procedures. Supply, demand; local vs. central financing and locational problems.

CP 535 Workshop in Comparative Urban Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (3-0)3

Historical evolution of city system in the Middle East and North Africa; cultural and environmental factors effecting similarities and variations in the region; comparative analysis of urbanization and social change in capital-rich and capital-poor countries of the region; changing physical morphology of the major cities (old and new national capitals, ports, new towns and holly cities) and transformations in city centers due to 'over urbanization'.

CP 536 Seminar in Comparative Urban Planning Approaches in the Middle East and North Africa (3-0)3

Cultural background, geographical factors and socio-economic variations effecting culturalist vs. progressist approaches in urban planning systems of the region; comparative case studies and evaluation of some large scale projects on urban conservation, low-cost housing (site and services, self-help, upgrading etc.), public transportation and urban development.

CP 541 The Urban Design and Planning Process (3-0)3

An overview of urban design and planning processes through case studies. Metropolitan municipalities and urban policy, plan, program and project identification. Formulation, design, finance, management and implementation of urban projects. Social, political, financial, institutional, legal and technical issues in urban project implementation with a particular focus on 'resettlement'.

CP 542 Workshop in Urban Design and Planning Process (3-0)3

Research on urban design and planning processes. Metropolitan municipalities. Urban policy, plan, program and project identification. Studio work on a selected real life urban design and planning problem with particular emphasis on social, political, financial, institutional, legal and technical issues of implementation.

CP 552 Theories and Principles of Urban Design (3-0)3

Positive and normative theories of design; substantial and procedural aspects of design theory; models of man-environment relations; man-environment relations in the historical context and schools of design; urban elements: street, formal and symbolic attributes of urban elements; squares, house; Jungian approach to the analysis of urban elements.

CP 563 Evolution of Civic Design (3-0)3

Emergence of the nineteenth century urban design schools and the twentieth century urban design models within a framework of the evolution of urban design approaches.

CP 564 Seminar: Urban Systems and National Development (3-0)3

Discussion of national urban population as one of the pressing problems of developing countries. Description and the analysis of the urban systems with quantitative scientific techniques, relation with the national development and possible future trends. Term paper about: possible future trends in the urban systems, possible effects of high technology, global markets and technopolis strategies.

CP 572 Environmental Policies and Planning (3-0)3

This course focuses on the evolution of environmental consciousness, concerns and policies since 1960s. The course also covers discussions, future possible developments of environmental policies. The changes of environmental policies at global, regional, national and local levels are to be presented during the course. The policies will be evaluated from juridical, administrative and sectional aspects. The world wide and nation wide statistics about population, natural resources will be studied.

CP 574 History of Housing as a Social Relation (3-0)3

Definition of the 'house' as a human social relation beyond the nest and shelter; its development in the matrilineal clan; its transformation in the patriarchal society; its role in the class relations of slave holding city-states and empires; medieval housing as a part of the feudal bondage; Ottoman urban housing and relations between central state and local communities; housing after the industrial revolution as a part of the conflict between capital and labor, gecekondu as a specific form of labor housing and the housing market in Turkey.

CP 577 Solar Energy and Urban Planning (3-0)3

Solar energy as an alternative energy. Solar energy and town structure. Utilization of the solar energy in towns. Climate and its effects on urban structure. Solar architecture. Solar systems of architecture. Solar systems and urban planning. Solar energy and urban morphology. The concept of solar town.