The course is aimed to gain knowledge, skill and proficiency on the organization of urban space.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
-Öymen Gür, Ş. (1996). Mekan Örgütlenmesi, Trabzon: Gür Yayıncılık.
- Bacon, E. (1995). Design of Cities, London: Thames and Hudson.
- Aydemir, Ş., Erkonak Aydemir, S., Şen Beyazlı, D. (et.al.) (2004). Kentsel Alanların Planlanması ve Tasarımı, Trabzon: İber Matbaacılık.
- Panerai, P., Castex, J., Depaule, J.C., Samuels, I. (2004). Urban Forms, Oxford: Architectural Press.
- Broadbent, G. (2001). Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design, London and New York: Taylor and Francis.
- Kostof, S. (2009). The City Shaped, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
- Kostof, S. (2004). The City Assembled, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
- Krier, R. (1984). Urban Space, London: Academy Editions.
Other Sources
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction of course program and reading list.
Oral presentation
2. Week
Definition of urban pattern, urban morphology and the evolution of spatial organization.
Oral presentation
3. Week
Historical evolution of urban form, the effects of urban form on social, economic and historical developments.
Oral presentation
4. Week
Organization of urban space, concepts of openness and enclosure, squares and courtyards, streetsavenues, roads
Oral presentation
5. Week
Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam
6. Week
Excursion
Technical Excursion
7. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
8. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
9. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
10. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
11. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
12. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
13. Week
Studio Study
Case study-project
14. Week
Student Presentations
Presentation
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Project(s)
1
30
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
To gain knowledge and understand the socio-economical and spatial components and processes which are both the subjects and the outcomes of an urban design project.
PO-2
To gain knowledge and critical awareness about the relations in between urban design and the other disciplines like architecture, urban planning, economy and sociology; and the opportunuties and threats that will arise by these relations.
PO-3
Ability to realize an urban design project or a research on urban design in a multidisciplinary process, using both the theoretical and practical knowledge infrastructure, developing new methods and techniques.
PO-4
Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-5
Ability to make research, to analyse and to criticise in the area of academical knowledge and design processes, using the appropriate techniques, producing original results.
PO-6
To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-7
To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-8
To gain competency to transfer the knowledge gained using a foreign language, both in verbal and visual way, via contemporary computer programmes and techniques.
PO-9
To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-10
To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To gain knowledge and comprehension about the components and the processes like urban pattern, urban morphology and the evolution of spatial organization.
LO-2
To gain knowledge and comprehension about the historical evolution of urban form and its effects on the historical, social and economic developments.
LO-3
To gain knowledge and comprehension about the methods and models related to the analysis of urban patterns.
LO-4
Ability to forward the theoretical knowledge towards practice within the process of urban design through the urban analysis of a settlement as a case study.
LO-5
To gain competency to prosecute an urban analysis individually.
