SBP 439 - Metropolitan Planning

Course Objectives

Effects of agricultural, industrial and information revolutions on urban structure. Conceptual evaluations of metropolitan area and metropolitan city. Examination of the effects behind metropolitanization processes with different social and physical characteristics. Characteristics of Turkish and Istanbul metropolitan development processes. Current and potential effects of information technologies on the land use pattern of metropolitan areas. Metropolitan planning process, strategies, approaches, models, methods. Sustainability in metropolitan planning.

Course Description

Effects of agricultural, industrial and information revolutions on urban structure. Conceptual evaluations of metropolitan area and metropolitan city. Examination of the effects behind metropolitanization processes with different social and physical characteristics. Characteristics of Turkish and Istanbul metropolitan development processes. Current and potential effects of information technologies on the land use pattern of metropolitan areas. Metropolitan planning process, strategies, approaches, models, methods. Sustainability in metropolitan planning.