Academic Catalog

CRP450 NEW SPACES OF GROWTH AND PRODUCTION

Course Code: 1210450
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 5.0
Department: City And Regional Planning
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. AYDA ERAYDIN
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Recent issues on geography of production, new spaces of growth, and changing spatial organization of the world system. General discussion on dynamics of the changes in spatial organization of production. The theoretical explanations on the emergence of new nodes of growth. Industrial districts, learning regions, border regions, nodes urban areas as nodes of networks, technology based developing areas.