COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICS, SPACE AND SCALE QUESTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5080 POLITICS, SPACE AND SCALE QUESTION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ERDAL ONUR DIKTAŞ

Offered to

M.Sc. Urban Design
Urban Design

Course Objective

The aim of this course is examining the politics as social desicion mechanism, space as realization ground of politics and scale of realization through different formation zones.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to define the scale question through space, time and organizational dimensions (Knowledge)
2   Students will be able to list the ways of different seeing of scale question within different field (Knowledge)
3   Students will be able to describe the relationship between determination and scale (Comprehension)
4   Students will be able to make a comperative study on different scales (Application)
5   Students will be able to fix the question between the city and the scale (Analysis)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Scale question in general, Epistemological scale continuity Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Emergence of scale question in Critical Urban Theory
3 Scale as an epistemological framework
4 Dimensions of scale: Space, Time and organization
5 Problem of organization, Probabilistic Determinism and Reproducion of Existance
6 Dialectic: From Probabilty toward the Determinism Homework subjects will be given in this week.
7 Accumulative organizations, globalization and dimensions of scale 1: Modern World System and World System
8 Accumulative organizations, globalization and dimensions of scale 2:David Harvey, Compression of Space and Time
9 Relationship among Organization, emergence/power and determination in the context of Probabilistic Determinism
10 Evaluation of scale question within emergence/realization and power/determination
11 Homework/Submission/Presentation Students will be required to submit their homeworks and present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
12 Homework presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

- Diktaş, E. O. (2010) Oluş-Gerçekleşme ve Etki-Belirlenim ilişkisi bağlamında mekan, zaman ve örgütlenme boyutları ile ölçek sorunsalı, unpublished PhD Thesis , DEÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Izmir
- Manson, S.M., (2006). Does scale exist An epistemological scale continuum for complex human environment systems. Geoforum (2006), doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.010
- Marston, S., Jones, J. P., Woodward, K. (2005). Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 30 416 432 2005
- Meentemeyer, V. (1989). Geographical perspectives of space, time and scale. Landscape Ecology, Vol. 3 nos. 3/4, pp. 163-173.
- Moore, A. (2008). Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from analysis to practice. Progress in Human Geography 32(2) (2008), pp. 203 225
- Wu, J. ve Li H. (2006). Concepst of Scale and Scaling. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology-Methods and Applications içinde (sf.3-16). Dordrecht: Sipringer Pub.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures and discussions. Homeworks will be given to students in the week that follows midterm examination and they will be asked to prepare their homeworks and presentation on the subjects given to them.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining and Listing (Knowledge) will be measured by Midterm Examination
Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework
Relating (Analysis) will be measured by Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures, visual materials, graphics, films and discussions over reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdal.diktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 3 18
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 75 75
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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