CRP242 URBAN GEOGRAPHY
| Course Code: | 1210242 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. SERAP KAYASÜ |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with the general concept and context of urban geography and to enable them not only to grasp the theoretical implications as spatial dimension of the urban pattern but also to underline the links with the abstract socio-economic space. The course also aims to lay down the urban spatial basis for reinterpretation of subjects taken up in economic, social and political courses in urban context, in inter-urban system of cities and also intra-urban analysis involving processes going on in cities.
Course Content
Discusses settlement systems and hierarchies, models of urban form, land use types and density variations in urban space, different statistical methods for the description and analysis of spatial distributes and gives a critical summary of planners value judgments towards land use planning in urban areas.
Course Learning Outcomes
The student who passes the course satisfactorily will be able to realize as a planner that explanations cannot always be found in observed phenomena or spatial outcomes but must be soughht in the general structures to whhich they relate and that relations among component parts are more significant than individual parts. Clues to urban issue does not lie in urban environment but in the encompassing socio-economic system of which the city is an outcome.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Knowledge and internalization of the concepts of social responsibility and public interest | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Giving priority to these concepts in planning and practice | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Commitment to professional ethics and values | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Capacity to independently carry out individual tasks and studies | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Ability to work as a responsible team member as well as a leader in team works | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Professional competency to carry out plans and projects with the utmost quality | ✔ | |||
| 7 | In the fields of planning and design: * Knowledge of planning theories * Ability to integrate theory and practice * Competency in problem definition, critical approach, and usage of analysis methods and techniques * Skills of inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional thinking, analysis, synthesis, implementation, and development of alternative plans and design solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | In both Turkish and English: * Knowledge of professional terminology * Ability to carry out and present original studies * Skills of expressing oneself | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Lifelong learning skills and attributes | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in process design and management | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution