ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ARC3967 | Urban Design Theory | Spring Fall |
2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NESLİHAN AYDIN YÖNET |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NESLİHAN AYDIN YÖNET |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | . |
Course Objectives: | The main objective of this course is to define contemporary urban design theory in an interdisciplinary framework that includes architecture, planning, and landscape design |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - Understanding of the diverse needs, values, behavioral norms, physical abilities, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals. At the same time understanding the roles and responsibilities of urban designers and architects in it. - Understanding of the relationship between human behaviour, the natural environment, and the design of the built environment. - Ability to examine and comprehend the fundamental principles present in relevant precedents and to make choices regarding the incorporation of such principles into architecture and urban design projects. |
Urban Design Theory provides students with an introduction to theories, concepts, methods, and contemporary issues in urban design. Contemporary urban design is the process of collaboration between the architecture, planning, and landscape architecture professions. This collaboration is discussed by the important approaches and the selected examples. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | . |
2) | What is Urban Design? | |
3) | Urban Evolution | |
4) | Planning Movements | |
5) | Urban Form, Urban Patterns, and Urban Morphology | |
6) | Public Space | |
7) | Sustainability | |
8) | Pandemic and City | |
9) | Midterm | |
10) | Student Presentations and Discussion | |
11) | Student Presentations and Discussion | |
12) | Student Presentations and Discussion | |
13) | Poster Critics of the Final Submission | |
14) | Evaluation / Final Discussion |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | . |
References: | • Lynch, K. (1960), The Image of The City, The MIT Press, Massachusetts, USA. • Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., Silverstein, M., with Jacobson, M., Fiksdahl - King, I., Angel, S. (1977), A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. • Lynch, K. (1981), Good City Form, The MIT Press, Massachusetts, USA. • Broadbent, G. (1990) Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design. • Jacobs, J. (1993), The Death and Life of Great American Cities. • Jacobs, A. B. (1996), Great Streets. • Blakely, E. J., Snyder, M. G. (1997), Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States. • Lang, J. (2005), Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies. • Gehl, J., Cities for People, Island Press, 2010. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Presentation | 1 | % 25 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 2 | 26 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 6 | 72 |
Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 106 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |