CRP710 PLANNING, ACTION AND INSTITUTIONS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PLANNING THEORIES
| Course Code: | 1210710 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYDA ERAYDIN |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The goal is to create new planning sensibilities, enable students to criticize existing theories and planning practice and make them familiar to the new discourses on urban and regional planning. It also aims to promote thinking about what work planning theory should do, what its scope should be, and how theorising should proceed. The student is expected to acquire not only knowledge but a critical thinking on existing theoretical debates and gain insight into innovative thinking for the future of planning.
Course Content
Comprehension the planning theories. Analysis of planning theories regarding the rationality and substance. Criticisms on instrumental and communicative planning. Alternative planning paradigms. Resilience thinking in planning.
Course Learning Outcomes
To enhance understanding theories and debates on planning and enable students to criticise them as well.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To follow and evaluate contemporary developments and discussions on urban development and urban planning. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To attain the accumulation of knowledge that enables to establish relations between theoretical studies to empirical studies on practice. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To have the necessary knowledge and skills in order to relate urban development theories to policies and plans. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To have the accumulation of knowledge that enables to establish cooordination between different approaches developed by various disciplines. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To evaluate plausible approaches in solving urban problems and their causes by using theoretical knowledge and technical skills. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To have a good command of English language in order to follow international developments and publications as well as carrying out international studies. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To have the competence to conduct high quality works in project and plan development processes. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To develop solutions by interpreting and creating syntheses among those parties that take place in the planning process. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To be confident in making use of the proposed solution alternatives for determining the priorities in policy and plan making. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To develop the necessary technical knowhow and communicational skills to present the work accomplished by urban planners. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution