COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN GROWTH AND FRINGE PLANNING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5066 URBAN GROWTH AND FRINGE PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR NESLIHAN ÜNVERDI

Offered to

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

Course Objective

This course aims at defining urban growth and urban sprawl, presenting urban growth theories with the circumstances under which they have developed, getting to comprehend growth management strategies, interpreting the rural-urban fringe as part of metropolitan city of Izmir, analysing the relationships between theory and practice, proposing a normative growth control system and revising the actual one.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, students, will be able to define growth and sprawl (knowledge)
2   will be able to list the theories of urban growth historically (Knowledge),
3   will be able to describe growth management strategies (Comprehension),
4   will be able to interprete the the rural-urban fringe (Application),
5   will be able to relate theory to practice (Analysis),
6   will be able to propose a new (normative) growth control system (Synthesis),
7   will be able to revise the actual control system (Evaluation).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Location Theory Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Agglomeration Economies
3 City Size, Structure and Growth
4 Theories of Urban Growth
5 The Rural-Urban Fringe
6 Midterm Examination
7 The Rural-Urban Fringe as Part of Metropolitan City of Izmir Homework topics will be handed out in this week.
8 Growth Management Strategies
9 Planning the Fringe
10 Blending Regulations and Incentives to Manage Fringe Growth
11 Homework/Submission/Presentation Students will be required to submit their homeworks and present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
12 Legal and Administrative Aspects of Fringe
13 Regional Planning: making the city, suburb and fringe connection
14 On the Revision of the Turkish Urban Growth Control System
15 Final Examination

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook:
Daniels, T. (1999). When The City and Country Collide: managing growth in the
metropolitan fringe, Island Press, Washington.
Scott, A.J., The Urban Land Nexus and the State, Pion Limited, London, 1980.
Supplementary Book:
Fainstein, S. and Campbell, S., (Eds.), Urban Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, 1996.
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 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.40


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), Proposing (Synthesis) and Revising (Evaluation) will be measured

Assessment Criteria

Defining and Listing (Knowledge) will be measured by Midterm Examination
Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework
Relating (Analysis), Proposing (Synthesis) and Revising (Evaluation) 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)

neslihan.karatas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.00-12.00; Wednesday 10.00-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 4 40
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 40 40
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

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
LO.61
LO.71

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