Urbanization and Environmental Problems

Course Code:

PA 204

Course Period:

Spring

Course Type:

Core

P:

3

Application:

0

Credits:

3

ECTS:

6

Course Language:

İngilizce

Courses given by:

Barış Gençer Baykan

Course Objectives:

This course provides a survey of the interrelated issues and concepts of the social, political, economic, and environmental aspects of urbanization. It explores the political economy of urbanization on different scales scale and highlights trends in urbanization that significantly impact the environment.

Course Content:

The course will explore the causes and environmental consequences of urbanization in an interconnected, global world. Overurbanization and the rise of Mega-cities - along with the local conditions that facilitate them - will be discussed. This course pays particular attention to the role cities, social movements, and institutions play in addressing environmental concerns.

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 9: Simulation, 12: Case Study

Course Evaluation Methods:

A: Testing, C: Homework

Vertical Tabs

Course Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes	Program Learning Outcomes	Teaching & Learning Methods	Assesments Methods
Understand key debates, concepts and issues in /urbanization	1,2,3,5	1,2,3	A,C
Understand the relationships between social, economic, and environmental systems on a global scale	7,5,3	1,2,3	A,C
Gain experience in evaluating environmental problems and solutions	3,4,5	1,2,3	A,C
Apply interdisciplinary knowledge to urbanization and environmental problems	5,3,4	1,2,3	A,C

Course Flow

Week	Topics	Study Materials
1	Course Introduction – Orientation
2	History of Cities
3	Urbanization – Definitons, Concepts, Issues
4	Urban Theories
5	Urbanization in Turkey
6	Right to the City
7	Global City
8	MIDTERM EXAM
9	The City Environment
10	The State of the Environment
11	Environmental Policy
12	Environmental Movements
13	Global Environmental Problems
14	Climate Politics
15	Review
16	FINAL EXAM

Recommended Sources

Textbook

Fikret Adaman & Murat Arsel (2005) Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Democracy and Development, Ashgate

Ruşen Keleş ( 2006) Kentleşme Politikası, İmge Kitabevi

Additional Resources

İlhan Tekeli (2011) Kent Kentli Hakları Kentleşme ve Kentsel Dönüşü, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları.
David Harvey (2013) Rebel Cities. From Right to the City to Urban Revolution, Verso
Manuel Castells (1983) The City and the Grassroots, University of California Press
Henri Lefebvre (2013) Kentsel Devrim, Sel Yayıncılık
Mehmet Ali Beyhan (2012) Türkiye de İskan ve Şehirleşme Tarihi, Kitabevi Yayınları
Fikret Berkes & Mine Kışlalıoğlu (2001) Çevre ve Ekoloji, Remzi Kitabevi
Çağlar Keyder (2000) İstanbul: Yerel ile küresel arasında, Metis
Pamela S. Chasek David L. Downie Janet Welsh Brown (2013) Global Environmental Politics, Westview Press.
Saskia Sassen (2000) The Global City, Princeton University Press

Material Sharing

Documents

Çevre İhtilafları Atlası www.direncevre.org

Environmental Performance Index http://epi.yale.edu/

Assignments

Exams

Midterm and Final

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Midterm	1	40
Final	1	50
Attendance	1	10
Total		100
Contribution of final exam to overall grade		50
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade		50
Total		100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
		1	2	3	4	5
1	To know the state theories and universal principles of public administration			X
2	To know that the legal structure of Turkish public administration					X
3	Competence of analyzing the current administrative and political issues in the light of Turkey's socio-political history					X
4	Acquiring communication and leadership skills for the public, NGO, and private sectors.			X
5	To have the qualifications to develop and implement public policies at the local and national level					X
6	Effective use of technology in the public and private sectors		X
7	An ability to analyze global and regional developments					X

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course duration ( Including the exam week; 16* Total course hours)	15	3	45
Hours for off the classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	6	75
Mid-terms	1	3	3

Homework	5	5	25
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			151
Total Workload / 25 (h)			6,04
ECTS Credit of the Course			6

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