Weeks

Topic(s) and reading list

1

February 15, 2017

Introduction: the concepts of planning and policy

Studying Cities, Power, and Politics

2

February 22, 2017

History and growth of urban West - I

- Urban growth

- The great migrations

- The limited power of cities

  • Reading:

Warner, S.B., Evolution and Transformation: The American Industrial Metropolis, 1840-1940, in The City Reader.

3

March 1, 2017

History and growth of urban West - II

- Welfare politics

- Industrialization and Fordism

  • Reading:

Kenneth T. Jackson, The drive-in culture of contemporary America, in The City Reader.

  • Write a reaction paper on the forces affecting urban growth.

4

March 8, 2017

Planning at the Wake of Global Restructuring

- Globalization process and impacts on cities

- Supranational integration and transnational regionalization

  • Reading:

Saskia Sassen, The impact of the new technologies and globalization on cities, in The City Reader.

  • Write a reaction paper on the impacts of globalization on urban policy.

5

March 15, 2017

 

Governments-governance-participation in planning

- Decentralization and Governance

- The right to the city

- Public space, the public sphere and urban democracy: some definitions
- Top-down and bottom-up production of public spaces

  • Reading:

Robert Dahl, Who Governs, in The Urban Politics Reader.

  • Write a reaction paper on the representational democracy and participation.

6

March 22, 2017

 

Poverty, Inequality and social exclusion

- Social inequality, Social exclusion

- Socio-spatial segregation, gated communities

  • Reading:

Mike Davis, Fortress L.A., in The City Reader

  • Write a reaction paper on the impacts of the impacts of social inequality on urban space.

7

March 29, 2017

Urban decline and renewal

- Urban renewal and revitalization

- Urban regeneration and redevelopment, Gentrification

  • Reading:

Duruoz Uzun, N, (2005) Residential transformation of squatter settlements: Urban redevelopment projects in Ankara, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, 20: 183-199.

  • Write a reaction paper on the impacts of urban residential transformation.

Weeks

Topic(s) and reading list

8

April 5, 2017

The Turkish case - I

- The basis of urbanism in Turkish cities

- Ideological roots in Early Republican period

- Economic and political background of Early Republican cities

  • Reading:

Herman van der Wusten (2000) The cityscapes of European capital cities, GeoJournal, 51: 129-133.

 

9

April 12, 2017

The Turkish case - II

- Capital-building process

- Cityscape of the capital

  • Reading:

Keskinok, H. C. (2010) Urban planning experience of Turkey in the 1930s, METU Journal of Faculty of Architecture 27(2): 173–188.

  • Write a reaction paper on the principal politics of early republican years particularly in political and economic terms.

 

10

April 19, 2017

The Turkish case - III

- The changing structure of the capital

- Introduction of the case study and topics – What role does politics play in the formation and structuring of Ankara city? How is the development corridor shaped? Is there any divergence from the politics of early republican years? What is the consequential cityscape?

 

11

April 26, 2017

Presentations

- Presentation of selected topics

- Discussion

 

12

May 3, 2017

Presentations

- Presentation of selected topics

- Discussion

 

13

May 10, 2017

 

Presentations

- Presentation of selected topics

- Discussion

 

14

May 17, 2017

Presentations

- Presentation of selected topics

- Discussion