Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Peyzaj Şehirciliği Konuları
	English	Topics in Landscape Urbanism
Course Code	PEM 433E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Meltem Erdem Kaya
Course Objectives		1. To introduce the theory and praxis of Landscape Urbanism 2. To provide critical thinking on contemporary landscape design 3. To introduce landscape urbanism approaches and their design attitudes and discuss the conceptual framework raised by recent built works.
Course Description		The objectives of this elective course are to introduce recent topics in contemporary landscape architecture by focusing the theory of landscape urbanism. The course includes the issues namely; landscape urbanism themes and context, historical development of the theory, Landscape Approaches in New Urbanism and Green Urbanism, Ecological Urbanism and Integral Urbanism, Ecology and Environment (Themes and Context), Concept of Ecosystem Services and Urban Environment, Operational Landscapes (Nature, Infrastructure and Urban Conditions, Land, Water and Vegetation, Wetland Regeneration, self-engineering ecologies, Microclimatic Strategies, Waste Landscapes, and Recovery.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to: I. Promote critical thinking on Contemporary Landscape Design II. Recognize the concepts that lead the theory of Landscape Urbanism III. To discuss the conceptual background of Landscape Urbanism and define the contemporary design works IV. Understand multidimensional relations between theory and practice of Contemporary Landscape Design
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities
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Textbook
Other References		Mostafavi, M., 2010, Ecological Urbanism, Lars Müller Publishers Mostafavi, M., 2004, Landscape Urbanism: A Maunal For The Machinic Landscape, AA Publications Czerniak, J., 2007, Large Parks, Princeton Architectural Press Corner, J., 1999, Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press McHarg, I., 1995, Design With Nature, Wiley

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