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Course Name	Turkish	The City in History
	English	The City in History
Course Code	SBP 232E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	4	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		İsmail Eren Kürkçüoğlu
Course Objectives		Studying the history of cities from the earliest civilizations and learning the cultural, historical, political, social and economic factors that effect the formation of the cities, will be a guide for the planning of the cities in future.
Course Description		-
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to: 1. The Structure and Function of Urban Settlements 2. Evolution of cities and the history of urbanism 3. The planning approaches are developed and accepted from historical periods to nowadays. 4. The effect of traditional patterns (social, physical and economical) on planning 5. The effect of natural data on the on the settlement forms and patterns 6. Socio-cultural structure, the necessity of characterizing demands of the different cultural structures. 7. Effects of technological changes on the organization of urban areas, the planning concept and techniques which are developing according to modern needs. 8. System and constitutional differences in the cities of different time periods, their planning concepts and reflections on their morphological structures, the concept and method of planning for these cities. 9. Considering the current state of the urban area, interpreting the planed-unplanned developments, considering the spatial organizations which have been done/developed/implemented by the others.
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Textbook		Mumford L. (1991). The Citv in Historv, Enqland Morris, A.E.J., (1994), History of Urban Form, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., USA.
Other References		Girouard. M.. M 985). Cities & Peoole: A Social and Architectural History.Yale Univ. Press. Hakim B.. S.. (1986). Arabic-lslamic Cities: Buildina and Planning Principles, UK Kostoff S.. (1991). The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Throuqh History, Thames and Huston, London.UK Özdeş G.. Şehirciliğin Evrimi, (yayınlanmamış ders notlan) İTÜ, İstanbul. Vance J.. E.. (1990) The Continuing City: Urban Morpholoqy in Western Civilizations, UK Wcherley R.. E . (1962 ) How the Greeks Built Cities, Macmillan, London

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