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Definition of the discipline of public administration and basic problem areas; discussion of Turkish public administration system and its problems, alternative methods of solution.

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Formulation of multi-dimensional policy designs for the solution of selected urban problems; means whereby interventions can be made on legal, administrative, financial and economic variables and development of tools that can contribute to the formation of urban space.

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Production and management of divisible and priceable goods/services produced/provided by urban administrations; personnel structure and work-force planning; design and implementation of participation processes; project development and implementation methods; elements of cost and income; evaluation; effectivity, feasibility surveys; resource development, comparative proposal analysis; problems of utilization and management of immovable resources.

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Basic planning approaches and typologies, techniques and principles; planning hierarchy, physical planning types and tools; principles of zoning, sectoral planning examples such as residential, city center, industry, recreation and historical conservation.

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Attention will be given to three main problems faced by metropolitan areas: Environmental problems, the problem of efficiency, social problems. After a critical evaluation of the above problems, the need for reform will be considered.

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Definition of state's economic and financial functions; public goods theory; decentralization of state's economic and financial functions; the concept of local income and revenue types; methods of income sharing between administrations; characteristics of public revenue and expenditures and government budget in Turkey; historical evolution of local government finance and principles governing local government budgeting in Turkey.

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This course is aimed to introduce students to the work of major political thinkers of the 20th century with the central focus on the problems of domination and inequality. It begins with the four major thinkers of the previous century who have influenced heavily the 20th century political philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Marx. Then, we will read essays and short passages by Arendt, Foucault, Habermas, Rawls and Mouffle with the aim of reaching certain generalizations and comparisons. Our major questions would be: What kind of different attitudes toward the problems of domination and inequality can be delineated? What is the relationship between domination and inequality? Do they inevitably suppose each other?

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This course focuses on the transition in urban politics and center-local relationship away from Soviet era toward post-Soviet era in the case of Central Asian States. When the Soviet regime collapsed in 1991, the new states in post Soviet geography moved into an ambiguous time of transition. The central Asian states, like other post-Soviet countries, has built its political and administrative system around the creation of a nation state and the adoption of a market-based economy while attempting to address serious socio-cultural problems during the transition era.
Urban politics in post-Soviet Central Asia is affected by several conflicts emerged at different scales of the political/economic environment, such as the conflict between the global discourse of decentralization and the central role of the new nation states in the transition to a market-based economy in the absence of capitalist socio-economic relations, which resulted in further centralization. Thus, the primary focus of the course, shortly, consists of an exploration of the conflicts, dynamics, policies and strategies at international, national and local scale related to the urban politics in post-Soviet central Asia.

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Philosophy of local government in general and its role and importance as part of the state structure; in particular, major characteristics of the Turkish local administrative system and relations between central and local governments in Turkey.

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Analysis of selected urban problems in their legal, administrative, financial, economic dimensions and their impacts on the formation of urban space; examination of the opportunities offered or constraints imposed by legal, administrative, financial and economic variables with respect to the solution of problems. In addition to these, students from disciplines other than urban planning will be directed towards exercises that would introduce them to the general framework and basic concepts of urban planning as well as planning tools.

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Legal and administrative framework regulating the functioning of urban administrations; theory of public goods; municipal goods, their management and control; division of labour between central and local governments; analysis of elements hindering the legal and administrative effectiveness of this division; control over municipal activities and models directed towards enhancing the effectiveness of this control.

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The production of space approach of Henri Lefebvre, his notion of everyday life and its relation to urban studies and especially urban history; sources for writing Ottoman urban history, sources for writing European urban history; the connections of modernity and urbanism on the basis of Eastern and Western European cities; pre-modern multi-ethnic cities in imperial settings; the transition from empire to nation-state and its impact upon urban space; the crossroads of urban history and cultural and intellectual history; the relation between upper classes and `commoners` Ottoman cities.

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The course is designed to introduce the students to the basic concepts of urban politics and policy sciences. The students will be able to analyze better the political processes and decision-making concerning local communities. The course is supposed to contribute students to combine their knowledge in Urban Design and Local Government with Political Theory.

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This course is designed to ensure that students gain knowledge, awareness and sensitivity on basic ethical principles and to help students develop their abilities in applying ethical issues by using statistical ethics. The course also extends students knowledge on research types commonly used in social sciences. The course also targets to develop students skills on research planning.
Specifically, the course covers the following topics: What are science and scientific ethics? History of science and ethics; what is statistics? What are the role and place of statistics in research ethics?Basic statistical concepts (population, sample, dependent and independent variables, variable types etc); data collection methods; Research types in the field of social sciences; Research planning and stages; Sampling methods and appropriate sample size; Sources of error in research; Scientific research plan/proposal preparation; Ethics, principal of research ethics, ethics in statistics; Ethical issues in research; Scientific integrity and misconduct, violation of publishing ethics (fabrication, falsification, or plagiarisim in proposing, performing, or reviewing research or in reporting research results); Publication bias, conflict of interest, ethics and editorship; Responsibilities and duties of research ethics committees.

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Along with international oragizations and national states, cities are now particularly influential in policymaking to protect the global environment. This course, thus, will explore the foundations and evolution of environmental politics and policy at three fundamental levels of governance: the global, national and sub-national levels. The course will provide the students with key aspects of major environmental problems, evolution of the international politics of environmental issues as well as specific organizations, actors and policies of contemporary environmental governance.

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The main objective of this course is to introduce the students to political and legal aspects of urban conservation. The course goes beyond comprehending urban conservation as a mere esthetical, cultural and technical issue by placing emphasis on political processes, which also affect these issues.

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Must course for the Ph.D. students in Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments graduate program. The course covers a series of brief introductory seminars on various aspects of research design. The major aims of the course are (i) to convey an understanding of the relationship between theory/ conceptual framework, methodology and research methods and (ii) enable the students to elaborate their research program and plans of their thesis study and help them in problem formulatin.

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Evaluating paradigmatic assumptions of urban and political theorists according to the theoretical debates around issues of urban politics and space. Identifying conflicts among political actors, civil society and capital in shaping the urban space. Analysing state policies, political mobilization and urban social movements.

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Political nature of urban planning and public policy making is studied. Course provides an advanced analysis of urban politics and policy making. Students are provided with the knowledge and analytical tools to understand and operate within the urban political process and urban policy making. Strategical skills and the ability to contribute to the formulation and implementation of public services will be developed.

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In this course various qualitative research techniques are examined. The course provides a basic understanding of qualitative methods for conducting empirical social science research. It covers the process of social science research, serving methods, obstacles to empirical research and ethnical issues in social science research.

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This course ensures that students gain knowledge, awareness and sensitivity on basis ethical principals in social research and demonstrates the ways in which research and statistical ethics are related. The course also extends student knowledge of the statistics commonly used in social sciences. Specifically, the course covers: ethics, principal of research ethics, ethics in statistics, basic statistical concepts, descriptive statistics and organization of quantitative data, theoretical distributions, sampling distributions, basic research designs, basic sampling methods, hypothesis tests, measures of association, linear regression analysis.

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Must course for the Ph.D. students in Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments graduate program. The course covers a series of brief introductory seminars on various aspects of research design. The major aims of the course are (i) to convey an understanding of the relationship between theory/ conceptual framework, methodology and research methods and (ii) enable the students to elaborate their research program and plans of their thesis study and help them in problem formulatin.