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Course Name	Turkish	Urban History
	English	Şehir Tarihi
Course Code	ANT 520	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Nihan Naiboğlu Nihan Naiboğlu
Course Objectives		1) Examining the cities since the ancient times; 2) Investigation research methodologies on urban history; 3) Investigating the relationship between cities and industry, politics and economics throughout the history; 4) Studying the impacts of various concepts such as migration, energy use, sustainability and digital technologies on the present-day cities.
Course Description		Concept of a city since the ancient times; methodologies of urban history; impacts of political power on cities, impacts of religious authority on cities; economic models and cities; cities and industry; digital technologies; climate change/natural disasters and cities.
Course Outcomes		Students gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects: 1) The development of the city concept since the ancient times; 2) Methods of urban history; 3) The impacts of political power, religious authority, economic models on people's interactions in urban places over time. 4) The ways that natural features, industry and digital technologies shaped cities.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		None
Other		None
Textbook		• Joel Kotkin, The City: A Global History, (London: 2005), Weidenfield & Nicolson
Other References		• Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880, (London: 2014), Willey & Blackwell • Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, (London: 1999), Thames & Hudson • Spiro Kostof, The City Assambled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History, (London: 1999), Thames & Hudson • Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Orlando: 1968), Mariner Books

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