CRP499 SEMINAR IN SELECTED URBAN POLITICAL ISSUES
| Course Code: | 1210499 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. HÜSEYİN ÇAĞATAY KESKİNOK |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Seminar course around the contemporary topics in urban political context. Aim of the course is tonconcentrate student’s previous knowledge on different urban issues, to re-examine and evaluate the current urban problems of our cities by using the frameworks developed by urban political theories and to test the relevance and the validity of different paradigms in this context. Students are supposed to define and problematize the urban issues from policy and politics point of view.
Course Content
Seminar course around the contemporary topics in urban political context. The aim of the course is to concentrate students` previous theoretical knowledge on different urban issues; to reexamine and evaluate the current urban problems of our cities by using the frameworks developed by those theories; to test the relevance and the validity of different paradigms in this context. Major areas of concern are politics of urban spatial structuration, urban service provision, land ownership, social movements and the politics of urban planning issues.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will have ability to problematize the concrete urban issues around built environment from both policy and politics point of view. And ability to apply their previous knowledge on different urban issues, to re-examine and evaluate the current urban problems by using the frameworks developed by urban political theories.