BPL 502E - Globalisation and Regional Strategies

Course Objectives

Comprehension and interpretation of the urban system in the framework of the restructuring global economics

Exploring the case of Turkey with references to regional examples from the different parts of the world

Course Description

Background of new urban configuration: post-modernism, new technological paradigm, globalisation, post-Fordism, localism, regionalism, privatisation, supra-national organisations; Reshaping political spaces: State in the global order, political restructuring and reinvention of regions; regionalism and new territorialities: types of regionalist policies, city-regions, border regions; regional policies and planning attempts in Turkey.