Academic Catalog

CP558 NEW MODES OF INTERVENTION IN PLANNING

Course Code: 8530558
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: City Planning
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. MEHMET MELÝH PINARCIOÐLU
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The need for intervention and its goals in modern societies; tools of intervention; the distortions stemming from intervention; neoliberal philosophy and rational choice theory versus critical approaches; systematic competitiveness; selling places or city marketing and local development initiatives; social spatial justice, justice in time; social governance capacity of the urban; conflict management and negotiation process; promoting quality of organizations and quality of life; intervention design.