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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE / PM-307 - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Code: PM-307 Course Title: URBAN LANDSCAPE PLANNING Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer ESRA ÖZHANCI (eozhanci@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Transferring the basic principles of urban landscape planning to students, bringing an ecological perspective, emphasize the importance of the inter-disciplinary planning approach.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Explain the planning and urban landscape planning concepts and the relationship between ecological planning and landscape planning PO-1 To be able to make landscape planning, design and application on the basis of sustainability using knowledge and skills related to basic design and planning in the field
PO-2 Having professional responsibility and ethical values
PO-6 Having information about national and international environmental problems, being able to act sensitively and producing solutions
PO-7 Being able to behave independently and have the ability to use initiative
PO-9 Ability to planning of rural and urban areas at different scales according to user needs, ecological, aesthetical and functional principles
PO-10 Be able to produce rational and practical solutions for conservation of the natural and cultural environment
PO-12 To be able to express ideas and suggestions for solutions by using oral, written and graphical expression techniques
PO-13 Ability to gain life-long learning consciousness
Examination
Performance Project
LO-2 Acknowledge the history of urbanization and urban planning and be aware of the challenges of urbanization PO-1 To be able to make landscape planning, design and application on the basis of sustainability using knowledge and skills related to basic design and planning in the field
PO-2 Having professional responsibility and ethical values
PO-6 Having information about national and international environmental problems, being able to act sensitively and producing solutions
PO-7 Being able to behave independently and have the ability to use initiative
PO-9 Ability to planning of rural and urban areas at different scales according to user needs, ecological, aesthetical and functional principles
PO-10 Be able to produce rational and practical solutions for conservation of the natural and cultural environment
PO-12 To be able to express ideas and suggestions for solutions by using oral, written and graphical expression techniques
PO-13 Ability to gain life-long learning consciousness
Examination
Performance Project
LO-3 Explain the urban, urbanization, space concepts and analyze human-urban interactions PO-1 To be able to make landscape planning, design and application on the basis of sustainability using knowledge and skills related to basic design and planning in the field
PO-2 Having professional responsibility and ethical values
PO-6 Having information about national and international environmental problems, being able to act sensitively and producing solutions
PO-7 Being able to behave independently and have the ability to use initiative
PO-9 Ability to planning of rural and urban areas at different scales according to user needs, ecological, aesthetical and functional principles
PO-10 Be able to produce rational and practical solutions for conservation of the natural and cultural environment
PO-12 To be able to express ideas and suggestions for solutions by using oral, written and graphical expression techniques
PO-13 Ability to gain life-long learning consciousness
Examination
Performance Project
LO-4 Classify open and green areas, make plans in the light of ecologic, physical and socio-economic data PO-1 To be able to make landscape planning, design and application on the basis of sustainability using knowledge and skills related to basic design and planning in the field
PO-2 Having professional responsibility and ethical values
PO-6 Having information about national and international environmental problems, being able to act sensitively and producing solutions
PO-7 Being able to behave independently and have the ability to use initiative
PO-9 Ability to planning of rural and urban areas at different scales according to user needs, ecological, aesthetical and functional principles
PO-10 Be able to produce rational and practical solutions for conservation of the natural and cultural environment
PO-12 To be able to express ideas and suggestions for solutions by using oral, written and graphical expression techniques
PO-13 Ability to gain life-long learning consciousness
Examination
LO-5 To enhance the quality of urban life, compares the different opinions, synthesis them and produce new solutions PO-1 To be able to make landscape planning, design and application on the basis of sustainability using knowledge and skills related to basic design and planning in the field
PO-2 Having professional responsibility and ethical values
PO-7 Being able to behave independently and have the ability to use initiative
PO-9 Ability to planning of rural and urban areas at different scales according to user needs, ecological, aesthetical and functional principles
PO-10 Be able to produce rational and practical solutions for conservation of the natural and cultural environment
PO-12 To be able to express ideas and suggestions for solutions by using oral, written and graphical expression techniques
PO-13 Ability to gain life-long learning consciousness
Examination
Presentation
Performance Project
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The history of urbanization, urban landscape planning principles, planning, implementation and supervision of these plans and synthesizing the issues to be addressed from different perspectives, case studies in the field of urban landscape planning
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Purpose and introduction of the course What is the landscape in the historical process? Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
2 Landscape and classification today Landscape and human interaction Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
3 Current landscape approaches Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
4 Ecosystem level planning Planning at the landscape level Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
5 Distinctive features of planning at the landscape level Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
6 On the concepts of landscape architecture, landscape planning, landscape design Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
7 Purpose and scope in landscape planning Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
8 mid-term exam
9 Basic principles for the recreation systems, the factors determining the potential of a recreational area, important functions of urban recreation areas Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
10 Urban conservation: conservation and planning techniques, evaluation of natural resources in urban areas Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
11 Urban Conservation: urban ecosystems, urban vegetation, urban wildlife, urban ecology Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
12 Urban conservation: eco-cities, sustainable cities, urban footprint Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
13 Urban restoration: rehabilitation of abandoned urban areas, urban renewal, urban development and shrinking cities Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
14 Urban restoration: green belt, green roads, urban forestry, urban agriculture, permaculture Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
15 Review and show examples of different cities all over the world, cities of the future Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 AYDEMİR, Ş., AYDEMİR, S., ÖKTEN, N., ÖKSÜZ, A. M., SANCAR, C., ÖZYABA, M., 1999, Kentsel Alanların Planlanması ve Tasarımı, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Ders Notları:54, Trabzon
2 HILL, L, 1979.,Landuse and Landscape Planning ISBN 0249441578, Scotland
Required Course instruments and materials
book and visual presentation

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation 12 2 10
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 50

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 0
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 14 42
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 6 1 6
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 5 1 5
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 6 2 12
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 95