Academic Catalog

CP706 THE STRATEGIC SPATIAL PLANNING: PRINCIPLES, TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES

Course Code: 8530706
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: City Planning
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. BAHAR GEDÝKLÝ BÝLGÝN
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The changing world conditions that brought about the Strategic Spatial Planning approach. The Emerging Communicative Rationality Paradigm. The new phenomena and problems that urban areas encounter in the face of the new world order. The theory of Strategic Spatial Planning: New Policy agendas and new inter-institutional relations. The relation between the Strategic Spatial Planning & Mainstream Land-Use Planning. The organization of the strategic planning process: Participatory Planning Approach. The new techniques introduced with the strategic spatial planning. The Turkish planning system vis-a-vis the strategic spatial planning. Study of practical examples. Analyses of nation-specific factors that shape the interpretation of strategic spatial planning practices.