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Course Name	Turkish	Şehircilik ve İmar Hukuku
	English	Urbanism and Planning Law
Course Code	MIM 306	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	-	1	3	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Turgay Kerem Koramaz
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. This course aims to present the relation between architectural scale, urban scale, and urban planning processes and introduce the legal regulations related to urban planning. The course assignment will be focused on selected sample sites from historic areas or other urban settings. The assignment aims to convey the necessary skills to analyze the elements of urban space and urban pattern, define the problem(s), identify priorities, reach a synthesis, consider multiple alternatives, and develop design proposals.
Course Description		The assignment is focused on studying sample sites –selected from historic areas or other urban settings- regarding potentials, limitations, problems, and opportunities and consequently developing design alternatives for the study areas.
Course Outcomes		1. Formation of groups and study areas and defining the social, economic, natural and built-environment components of the urban area 2. Defining the social, economic, natural and built-environment components of the urban area (Literature review, secondary source research, field trip) 3. Defining of the urban planning and design problems 4. Explaining problems with different visualization and expression techniques 5. Urban planning and design solutions / implementation tools
Pre-requisite(s)		It is obligated to get at least 40 point (out of 100) during the semester. For the theoretical course, no more than two course-day (8 hours) of absenteeism can be made. Otherwise, the student is accepted as VF.
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