RP511 PLANNING THEORY

Course Code:8520511
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Regional Planning
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
Course Coordinator:Prof.Dr. MEHMET MELİH PINARCIOĞLU
Offered Semester:Fall Semesters.

Course Objectives

This course attemps to empower graduate students to tackle some eminent problems in planning theory with particular attention to recent socio-economic transformations. By doing so, the course analyses the tension between individual and social choices and sheds lights on the new role of planners.


Course Content

For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to learn the changing meanings of public interest regarding individual and social choice stemming from egoist, egocentiric, co-operative and alturist human patterns.