Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	// Introduction to the course & logistics Getting to know each other Conceptual approach to renewal and its study
2	// Off-class study Short essay: Tell us about urban renewal
3	// Urban models The big RE-: Types, definitions, differences
4	// Urban renewal agenda in North America and Europe Historic overview of responses to urban decay
5	// Renewal of informal areas across the world Guest lecture: “Mapping urban informalities” by Hesam Kamalipour, PhD, Cardiff University
6	// Physical, environmental and economic perspectives Quality and design of built environment Local economic development & urban renewal
7	// Governance & social perspectives Co-decision-making and community participation in urban renewal
8	SPRING BREAK
9	Midterm exam
10	// Urban renewal in Turkey Historic overview of legislative and administrative facets
11	// Renewal agenda in Istanbul Closer overview of interventions in decay, historic and gecekondu sites
12	// Decision-making in Istanbul’s renewal Institutional, legal, physical, economic, social factors
13	// Impacts of the big RE- 1 Film screening and discussion: “Ecumenopolis: City without limits”
14	// Impacts of the big RE- 2 Changing lives of local community post-gentrification & displacement
15	// Future of renewal in the world and in Turkey Structured debate: Tell us more about urban renewal