GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
CITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT/2300047
Course Title: CITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Prof. Hıkmet KAVRUK
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  www.gazi.edu.tr/~kavruk
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  kavruk@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Student can interpret basic concepts on urban economy and basic dynamics orienting urban economy.
Students can explicate the relationship between plan decisions, urban land and value change.
Students can analyze the relationships and conflicts between urban economy and property institution.
Students can relate the change in urban economy to its social and political context.
Students can analyze the actors in urban economy, behaviour of these actors, rent controls and its tools.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Theories of urban settlement and business location
2. Week  Dynamic urban models
3. Week  Theories of urban land use and rent theories; their relations to planning decisions
4. Week  Urbanization, new urban land production and change in urban land value.
5. Week  The relationship between urban land and private ownership of land and emerging conflicts
6. Week  Evaluating Turkey's urbanization process in terms of urban land value and urban land pattern.
7. Week  The ownership institution on urban land, ownership understanding and foundation
8. Week  Comparative ownership systems on urban land
9. Week  The formation of gap between urban land and urban land value, the management of urban land property problem.
10. Week  Evaluation of urban land ownership institution from the perspective of public interest and zoning plans
11. Week  The distribution of urban rents in Turkey and change within the process.
12. Week  Urbanization and processes of capital accumulation.
13. Week  Urban services and urban economy
14. Week  Basic intervention forms on urban economy
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Ruşen Keleş: Yerel Yönetim ve Siyaset, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2003 Nuri Tortop: Mahalli İdareler Yargı Yayınevi, Ankara, 2003
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  -
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
15
3
45
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
15
3
45
 Searching in Internet and Library
15
3
45
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
20
20
 Final and Studying for Final
1
25
25
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
180
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.2
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To be able to analyze those phenomenon and issues related with the discipline of Management Science through a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach and to produce proper solutions.X
2To be capable of following the theoretical and practical developments within the fields of political and social sciences, administrative sciences, urbanization and environmental problems and law on national and international scales.X
3To have competence in the theories and other conceptual approaches related with the discipline of Management Science and to have the capacity to comment on these theoretical constructions from a critical perspective.X
4To gain a repertoire on European Union s administrative structure, local government policy in Turkey, globalization and localitization debates and new approaches in public administration.X
5To be equipped with the knowledge of Turkish Constitutional order, legal framework of human rights and international law.X
6To be able to reach the academic literature on public administration, to prepare a research design based on this theoretical framework, to conduct a scientific research by utilizing both the quantitative and qualitative methods and to analyze gathered data as well as to produce findings out of them.X
7To have professional and social responsibility as well as the skills to produce scientific knowledge in line with the ethical principles; to be able to make scientific publications.X
8To be able to analyze those phenomenon and issues related with the discipline of Management Science through a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach and to produce proper solutions.X
9To be capable of following the theoretical and practical developments within the fields of political and social sciences, administrative sciences, urbanization and environmental problems and law on national and international scales.X
10To have competence in the theories and other conceptual approaches related with the discipline of Management Science and to have the capacity to comment on these theoretical constructions from a critical perspective.X