COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CITY PLANNING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIM 4001 CITY PLANNING COMPULSORY 1 1 0 2

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR LEVENT ÜNVERDI

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

This course intends to introduce students with concepts of urban history and planning, let them become familiar to urban planning techniques and getting engaged in urban planning practice at a case study area, which altogether targets at giving architectural students the skills in practice of city planning.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explaining various concepts concerned with city planning
2   Explaining the history of planning in broad terms
3   Having knowledge in city planning techniques
4   Defining different land use types in cities
5   Formulating design approaches for varying urban land uses.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to City Planning: Space as a cultural product; Intersection of Architecture with City Planning
2 Development of Cities and Urbanization in Time Cities of Industrial Revolution Cities of the Modern Period and Modern Planning
3 Urban Development Models and City Macroform Urban Spatial Analysis and Syntesis
4 Land Survey
5 Plan Hierarchy Different Plan Scales and Relations between scales
6 Project Reviews
7 Basic Technical Tools in Planning Land Use Techniques Building and Population Densities Exercise: Estimation of net and gross population densities
8 Basic Technical Tools in Planning Building Alignment Tools Urban Standards Exercise: Estimation of GAR and FAR; Building Alignment Tasks
9 Basic Urban Activities and Design Principles I Transportation Exercise: Project reviews
10 Midterm Exam
11 Basic Urban Activities and Design Principles II Housing Exercise: Project reviews
12 Basic Urban Activities and Design Principles III Education Health Culture Commerce Exercise: Project reviews
13 Interim Project Presentation
14 Basic Urban Activities and Design Principles IV Recreation Areas Open green spaces Sports facility areas Children play areas

Recomended or Required Reading

Watson, Platus, Shibley, 2003, Time Saver Standards for Urban Design, Mc. Graw Hill
-Lynch, K. 1984, Good City Form, MIT Press
-Alexander, Neis, Anninou, and King (1987) A New Theory of Urban Design
-Kostof, S. (1992) The city assembled Thames and Hudson, London

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course consists of lectures, presentations and designing activities

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE 1 * 0.50 + MTE 2 * 0.50
4 FINS FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.50 + FINS * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Listing and Explaining activities are assessed by the Interim Exam.
Having knowledge of and Defining activities are assessed by the Term Project.
Formulating designs is assessed by the Final Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Lecture will going on course texts of instructors, conferences and applications.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ipek.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Tutorials 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 9 1 9
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 59

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.15
LO.25
LO.3555
LO.45
LO.555