FILM AND TELEVISION
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
ARC3967	Urban Design Theory	Spring	2	0	2	4

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Basic information

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

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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

Sources

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.

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	4
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
3)	Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area	1
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	1
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	2
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	2
7)	Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10)	Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11)	Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white	3
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	5