COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBANIZATION AND HOUSING QUESTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 4487 URBANIZATION AND HOUSING QUESTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HAYAT ZENGIN ÇELIK

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims at defining the category of developing country, presenting the theories of third world urbanization with the circumstances under which they have developed, getting to comprehend urban informality, interpreting the Turkish urbanization as a case of practice, and analysing the relationships between the urbanization process and urban transformation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, students, will be able to define third world country (Knowledge),
2   will be able to list third world urbanization theories historically (Knowledge),
3   will be able to describe urban informality approaches (Comprehension),
4   will be able to interprete Turkish urbanization processes historically (Application),
5   will be able to relate urbanization processes to urban transformation (Analysis).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General Characteristics of Developing Countries Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Social and Economic Indicators: WB and UN Data
3 Third World Urbanization Theories
4 Housing, Infrastructure and Services
5 Changing National Settlement Systems
6 Midterm Examination
7 Urban Informality Homework topics will be handed out in this week.
8 Squatterization Processes
9 Housing Question and Housing Policy
10 Alternative Housing Production Processes
11 Homework/Submission/Presentation Students will be required to submit their homeworks and present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
12 Dependent Urbanization Approach in Turkey
13 General Structure of Turkish Squatters
14 Urban Transformation
15 Final Examination
16

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbooks:
Davis, M. (2007), Gecekondu Gezegeni, G. Koca (çev.), Metis, Istanbul.
Şenyapılı, T. (2004), Barakadan Gecekonduya, Iletişim, Istanbul.
Supplemantary Book:
Işık, O. Ve Pınarcıoğlu, M. (2001), Nöbetleşe Yoksulluk: Sultanbeyli Örneği, Iletişim, Istanbul.
Materials:
Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures. Students will learn topics by attending and listening the lectures. Homeworks will be given to students in 7th Week and they will be asked to prepare their homeworks on the subjects given to them.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE * 0.50 + ASG * 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

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.

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 and discussions over reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sezai.goksu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 10.30-12.00; Wednesday 15.00-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture 12 2 24
Presenting Homework 1 2 2
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing Individual Assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

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.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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