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| MIML7521 | The World Cities and Mega Cities | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of ARCHITECTURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Demet YILMAZ YILDIRIM | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | to explain the new formation of city which are brought about by globalization. To discuss the effects of the new city seeking and formations to urban physical structure, the legibility, imageability and identity of cities |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | discuss urban, urbanization, urban focus | 2 | 5,6 | | PO - 2 : | discuss tendency of urbanization, differenceof urban process | 2 | 5,6 | | PO - 3 : | define metropolitan city, world city, megacity and global city | 2 | 5,6 | | PO - 4 : | discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization in today's cities | 2 | 5,6 | | PO - 5 : | discuss the effects of globalization to the city form | 2 | 5,6 | | PO - 6 : | evaluate the effect of globalization to the urban identity | 2 | 5,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| urban, urbanization, process of urbanization and globalization, effects of them to the legibility and perceptibility of cities, contributions of them to the urban identity and the image of city, the formation of these variables in the world cities and mega cities. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | intoduction of subject and method | | | Week 2 | urban, urbanization, urbanization in the world, tendency of urbanization in the world, focus on urbanization | | | Week 3 | differences in the process of urbanization, the urbanization process in Europe | | | Week 4 | single city, metropolitan city, mega-city, world city, global city, globalization, positive and negative effects of globalization | | | Week 5 | the hierarchy of world cities; Friedmann, Hall, Taylor, etc. | | | Week 6 | Shangai, Rio de Janerio | | | Week 7 | Peking, Mexico | | | Week 8 | presentation, discussion, evaluation | | | Week 9 | in term exam | | | Week 10 | legibility, imageability, identity | | | Week 11 | legibility, imageability, identity | | | Week 12 | the city image and elements; paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks, city form | | | Week 13 | presentation, discussion, evaluation | | | Week 14 | presentation, discussion, evaluation | | | Week 15 | presentation, discussion, evaluation | | | Week 16 | final exam | | | |
| 1 | Hall, P. 1984; The World Cities (3`d.edition), Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London | | | 2 | Hall, P. 1988; Cities of Tomorrow, Basil Blackwell, Oxford | | | 3 | Aslanoğlu, Rana A. 2000; Kent, Kimlik ve Küreselleşme, Ezgi Kitabevi Yayınları, Bursa | | | 4 | Benevolo, L. 1995; Avrupa Tarihinde Kentler, çev: Nur Nirven, AFA Yayıncılık, İstanbul | | | 5 | Sassen, S. 1991; The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, N. J., Princeton University Press, Princeton | | | 6 | Bacon, Edmund N. 1978; Design of Cities, Peguin Books, London | | | 7 | Lynch, K. 1961; The Image of the City, The MIT Press, Cambridge. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 9 | 08/04/2022 | 3 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 28/05/2022 | 3 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 6 | 24 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 9 | 7 | 63 | | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Ödev | 9 | 4 | 36 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 9 | 6 | 54 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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