SBP 439 - Metropolitan Planning

Course Objectives

The effects of Agricultural, Industrial and Information Revolutions on urban structure. Conceptual evaluations on metropolitan area and metropolitan city. Examination of the effects behind metropolitanization processes with different social and physical characteristics in the world. Characteristics of metropolitan development process in Turkey and Istanbul. Current and possible effects of information technologies on metropolitan area land use pattern. Metropolitan planning process, strategies, approaches, models, methods. Sustainability in metropolitan planning.

Course Description

The effects of Agricultural, Industrial and Information Revolutions on urban structure. Conceptual evaluations on metropolitan area and metropolitan city. Examination of the effects behind metropolitanization processes with different social and physical characteristics in the world. Characteristics of metropolitan development process in Turkey and Istanbul. Current and possible effects of information technologies on metropolitan area land use pattern. Metropolitan planning process, strategies, approaches, models, methods. Sustainability in metropolitan planning.