COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE CITY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5121 INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE CITY 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

PROFESSOR EMINE IPEK ÖZBEK SÖNMEZ

Offered to

Urban Conservation Planning Scientific Preparatory (Msc Without Thesis)
City and Regional Planning Scientific Preparatory (Msc Without Thesis)
Urban Conservation Planning Scientific Preparatory (Msc)
Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design
City and Regional Planning Scientific Preparatory (Msc)

Course Objective

The goal of this course is to introduce students the relevant theories of urban
geography and to give a framewok for examining urban change, and to adress to the
changing city and its conceptualizations

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define different terminology relative to urban geography
2   Explain the framework of urban change
3   Define different theoratical approaches to urban geography
4   Analyse the changing urban geography

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: New Cities and Geographies
2 Different Types of Cities; Geographical Characteristics of the Industrial City; Post-Industrial Cities
3 Different Approaches in Urban Geography; The Evolution of Urban Geography
4 Economic problems of the city: De-industrialization,migration
5 New Urban Economies
6 New Economic Geographies of the City
7 Urban Policy and the Changing City
8 Urban Change and Emergent Urban Forms: Transformation of the City
9 The City Center and Inner Areas
10 Mid-Term Exam
11 Transforming the Image of the City: Marketing Cities
12 Suburban develeopments and change
13 New Geographies of Old Cities: The Global City, The Sustainable Ciy, The Edge City, The Creative City, The Electronic City, The Competitive City
14 Presentation for the term paper

Recomended or Required Reading

Hall, T. Urban Geography, Routledge, London
Bourne, L.1982, Internal Structure of the City, Readings on Urban Form, Growth and Policy,Oxford
Harvey, D. 1989, The Condition of Postmodernity, Blackwell, Oxford
Soja, E. 1989, Postmodern Geographies, Verso, London

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will be held by conferences, seminars and readings

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 * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ipek.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.00-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 40 40
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Midterm 1 40 40
Final 1 40 40
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 166

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41

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