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Course Name	Turkish	Şehircilik ve İmar Hukuku
	English	Urbanism and Planning Law
Course Code	MIM 343E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	2	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Hasan Serdar Kaya
Course Objectives		The success of architecture practices is strongly linked to the accurate comprehension of the related urban context and its components, and the relation and the interaction between building and city scales. The purpose of this course is to present the relation between arcitectural scale, urban scale and urban planning processes, and to introduce the legal regulations related to urban planning. The assignment of the course will be focused on selected sample sites from historic areas or other urban settings. The assignment aims to convey the necessary skills in order to analyze the elements of an urban space and urban pattern, to define the problem(s), to identify priorities, to reach synthesis, to consider multiple alternatives, and to develop proposals.
Course Description		The course focuses on urban planning process and its historic evolution, defining various function areas in cities, identifying urban densities, examining the formation of the urban pattern, and relating the planning legislation and architectural practices.
Course Outcomes		Urban pattern analysis Urban image SWOT Synthesis Urban design
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