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Transportation Policies and Spatial Dimentions

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
MIMY0414 Transportation Policies and Spatial Dimentions 3/0/0 DE TR 7
Course Goals

The aim of the lesson is to explore an urban space by its environmental, physical, economical and social dimension. Also in this lesson politics of intercommunication will be evaluated in local and global scale and basic intercommunication concepts will be discussed.

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Instructor(s) PROF. DR. EVRİM TÖRE
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Schedule The course is not active this semester.
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Teaching Methods and Techniques  
Lesson will be taught by examples and visual materials. Student will prepare a presentation and a case study area will be evaluated in the final.
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Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week Concept of intercommunication, planning and designing relation Presentation – seminar - discussion
2. Week Relations between intercommunication, traffic, spatial development Presentation – seminar - discussion
3. Week Relations between intercommunication and sustainability Presentation – seminar - discussion
4. Week Politics and strategies of sustainable intercommunication; Examples from Turkey and world Presentation – seminar - discussion
5. Week Spatial examples of sustainable intercommunication Presentation – seminar - discussion
6. Week Strategies of planning intercommunication and social consciousness Presentation – seminar - discussion
7. Week Healthy cities, pedestrian cities, eco cites, ext. Presentation – seminar - discussion
8. Week Midterm exam
9. Week Strategies of intercommunication and urban development; mix use model, smart cities model, pedestrian access and accessibility Presentation – seminar - discussion
10. Week Intercommunication models Presentation – seminar - discussion
11. Week Case study and analyses Technical tour
12. Week Case study and evaluation Technical tour
13. Week Case study and evaluation Technical tour
14. Week General discussions and presentations Presentation – seminar - discussion
15. Week General discussions and presentations Presentation – seminar - discussion
16. Week Evaluating design, management, planning and intercommunication Discussion - invited participants
17. Week Final exam
Assessments
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Program Outcomes
PO-1To 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-2To 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-3Ability 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-4Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-5Ability 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-6To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-7To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-8To gain competency to transfer the knowledge gained using a foreign language, both in verbal and visual way, via contemporary computer programmes and techniques.
PO-9To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-10To 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-1Analyzing and informing intercommunications socio-economic and spatial processes.
LO-2Have an artifice to team work about intercommunications inter disciplinary dimension.
LO-3Improving the explanation skill about current dynamics of urban space
LO-4Having a competence for to evaluate and method improve techniques
LO-5Gaining holistic perception rather than discrete solutions
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
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