COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HOUSING PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5059 HOUSING PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HAYAT ZENGIN ÇELIK

Offered to

M.Sc. City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning (Non-Thesis)
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course intends to consider the transformations in local conditions of third world countries in context of the recent changes and the newly-constructed balances throughout the world, and in parallel, aims to focusing on the problems emerging particularly in living spaces. Throughout the course, during which underdevelopment will be expounded in terms of all economical, political and social processes, the striking emphasis put on the local which is accompanied by dramatic fissures and fragmentation on spatial grounds will be elaborately discussed

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, students, will be able to describe the new urban poverty concept
2   will be able to define the characteristics of housing problem in developing countries,
3   will be able to explain the changing social and spatial relations in context of the new urban poverty
4   will be explain the economical and political dimensions of the change in the post-1980 period
5   will be able to interpret the new urban poverty in Turkey.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Historical development of capitalism and the problem of underdevelopment
2 The basic dynamics of change in the post-1980 period in the world and the changing spatial and social relations
3 The economical and political dimensions of change throughout the world and those processes which entail urban poverty
4 The economical and political dimensions of change throughout the world and those processes which entail urban poverty
5 Demographic dimensions of change throughout the world and the new content of population flows on basis of urban poverty
6 Demographic dimensions of change throughout the world and the new content of population flows on basis of urban poverty
7 The changing social and spatial relations in context of the new urban poverty, the processes of exclusion to be encountered by new strategies of living
8 The changing social and spatial relations in context of the new urban poverty, the processes of exclusion to be encountered by new strategies of living
9 Politics of economy of the changing Turkey of the post-1980 period and the social and spatial relations re-shaped in return
10 Politics of economy of the changing Turkey of the post-1980 period and the social and spatial relations re-shaped in return
11 Those processes which entail new urban poverty in Turkey and the new dynamics of migration-based poverty
12 Those processes which entail new urban poverty in Turkey and the new dynamics of migration-based poverty
13 Migration and new forms and new strategies of living in squatterization and the identity-based structures that have become conspicuous in this context.
14 Presentation/Discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

-Keleş, Ruşen (2006): Kentleşme Politikası, Imge Kitabevi, 9. baskı, Ankara.
-Turner, John.F.C. (1976): Housing by People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., London.
-Skinner, R.J. And M.J. Rodell(ed. by) (1983): People, Poverty and Shelter: Problems of Self-Help Housing in the Third World, Methuen &Co Ltd. New York.
-Tekeli, Ilhan (2010) : Konut Sorununu Konut Sunum Biçimleriyle Düşünmek, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, Istanbul.
-Şenyapılı, Tansı (2006): Gecekondu Olgusuna Dönemsel Bakışlar, Değişen Mekan, Mekansal Süreçlere Ilişkin Tartışma ve Araştırmalara Toplu Baış: 1923-2003, der.Ayda Eraydın,
Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara, s.84-122.
-Işık, Oğuz-M.Melih Pınarcıoğlu (2001): Nöbetleşe Yoksulluk: Sultanbeyli Örneği, Iletişim Yayınları, Istanbul.
-Pulat, Gülçin (1992): Dar Gelirlilerin Konut Sorunu ve Soruna Sosyal Içerikli Mekansal Çözüm Arayışları, Volkan Yayıncılık, Ankara.
- Davis, Mike (2006), Gecekondu Gezegeni, Metis Yayınları, Istanbul.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Describing, defining and expalining will be measured by Homework & research. Explaining and
interpreting will be measured by final presentation & report.

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)

hayat.zengin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 9.30-10.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparing homework 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Final Presentation 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

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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