Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| URBANIZATION and ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS | PPA3212126 | Spring Semester | 3+0 | 3 | 6 |
| Course Program |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | English |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Coordinator | Prof.Dr. Ömer Faruk GENÇKAYA |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | Prof.Dr. Ömer Faruk GENÇKAYA |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | This course aims to provide a survey of the interrelated issues and concepts of the social, political, economic, and environmental aspects of urbanization from current perspectives. It explores the political economy of urbanization on different scales and highlights trends in urbanization and sustainability that significantly impact the environment. |
| Course Content | This course contains; General Introduction: Theories, Causes, Consequences,The New Urban Agenda: Habitat III,Urbanization and the Environment,Impacts of Urbanization,Sustainable Development Goals of 2030,Sustainable urban development and human mobility,Sustainable urban development and human mobility,Urban Land and Transformation,Greening Through Cities: Urban Energy and the Climate,Cities and Pandemics,City to City Learning: A Mayors Dialogue,Financing the sustainable urban future,Perspectives on Urban and Environmental Politics in Turkey,General evaluation. |
| Dersin Öğrenme Kazanımları | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1. Explain key debates, concepts and issues in urbanization. | 10, 16, 9 | A, H |
| 2. Explain the relationships between social, economic and environmental systems on a global scale. | 10, 16, 9 | A, H |
| 3. To be able to evaluates the impact of urbanization on environmental issues and solutions. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| 4. To be able to interpret the preconditions of a sustainable urbanization. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| Teaching Methods: | 10: Discussion Method, 16: Question - Answer Technique, 9: Lecture Method |
| Assessment Methods: | A: Traditional Written Exam, H: Performance Task |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Introduction: Theories, Causes, Consequences | Tombari Bodo, “Rapid Urbanisation: Theories, Causes, Consequences and Coping Strategies,” Annales of Geographical Studies, 2 (13), 2019: 32-45. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336987657_Rapid_Urbanisation_Theories_Causes_Consequences_and_Coping_Strategies |
| 2 | The New Urban Agenda: Habitat III | The New Urban Agenda H III, United Nations, 2017. https://habitat3.org/wp-content/uploads/NUA-English.pdf |
| 3 | Urbanization and the Environment | Xuemei Bai, Timon McPhearson, Helen Cleugh, Harini Nagendra, Xin Tong, Tong Zhu, and Yong-Guan Zhu, “Linking Urbanization and the Environment: Conceptual and Empirical Advances”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2017. 42:215–40. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-061128 |
| 4 | Impacts of Urbanization | Erik Swyngedouw, “Urbanization and environmental futures: Politicizing urban political ecologies”, Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology, London and New York: Routledge, 2015, 609-619. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283132606_Urbanization_and_environmental_futures_Politicizing_urban_political_ecologies |
| 5 | Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 | UN, Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development, THE 17 GOALS, 2015, https://sdgs.un.org/goals |
| 6 | Sustainable urban development and human mobility | ODI, Urbanisation and human mobility, 2020, https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/Urbanisation_and_human_mobility_fact_sheets.pdf Urbanization and migration, 10 June 2022, https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/urbanization-and-migration |
| 7 | Sustainable urban development and human mobility | ODI, Urbanisation and human mobility, 2020, https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/Urbanisation_and_human_mobility_fact_sheets.pdf Urbanization and migration, 10 June 2022, https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/urbanization-and-migration |
| 8 | Urban Land and Transformation | Hazal Ilgın Bahçeci, “Capital Accumulation as a Tool for Urban Rent in Turkey”, Journal of US-China Public Administration, 13 ( 2), February 2016: 122-135, http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/576a3b1fcbb46.pdf Handan Türkoğlu, Azime Tezer, Alper İlki, Seda KUNDAK, Urban Planning and Construction for Disaster Mitigation, ISMEP, 2009, https://www.ipkb.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Urban-Planning-and-Construction-for-Disaster-Mitigation-Training-Guideline-for-Community-Represen.pdf |
| 9 | Greening Through Cities: Urban Energy and the Climate | Molly Webb, Andrew Scott, Ipek Gençsü and Derik Broekhof, Urban Energy and the Climate Emergency: Achieving Decarbonisation Via Decentralisation and Digitalisation, London and Washington, DC: Coalition for Urban Transitions, 2020, https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/ 2020/03/ Urban_ Energy_and_the_Climate_Emergency_web_FINAL.pdf Andrei Covatariu, “Urban pollution across the Middle East and Black Sea regions: Causes and mitigation measures”, Middle East Institute, Policy paper, July 14, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/urban-pollution-across-middle-east-and-black-sea-regions-causes-and-mitigation |
| 10 | Cities and Pandemics | Gulati, M., Becqué, R., Godfrey, N., Akhmouch, A., Cartwright, A., Eis, J., Huq, S., Jacobs, M., King, R., Rode, P. 2020. The Economic Case for Greening the Global Recovery through Cities: Seven priorities for national governments, London and Washington, DC: Coalition for Urban Transitions, 2020, https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/ 2020/09/ The_Economic_Case_for_Greening_the_Global_Recovery_through_Cities_web_FINAL.pdf “Conclusions”: UN Habitat, Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future, Nairobi, 2021. 162-171. https://unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/2021/03/cities_and_pandemics-towards_a_more_just_green_and_healthy_future_un-habitat_2021.pdf |
| 11 | City to City Learning: A Mayors Dialogue | Sarah Rosengaertner, “Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity Reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe”, ODI Framing paper, https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/202010_odi_ mayors_dialogue_wp_final_web_updated.pdf |
| 12 | Financing the sustainable urban future | Manisha Gulati et al. The Economic Case For Greening the Global Recovery Through Cities, Seven Priorities For National Governments, https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ The_Economic_ Case_for_Greening_the_Global_Recovery_through_Cities_web_FINAL.pdf James Alexander and Darius Nassiry with Sam Barnard, Michael Lindfield, Renard Teipelke and Martijn Wilder, “Financing the sustainable urban future: scoping a green cities development bank”, ODI, Working paper, April 2019, https://odi.org/en/publications/financing-the-sustainable-urban-future-scoping-a-green-cities-development-bank/ |
| 13 | Perspectives on Urban and Environmental Politics in Turkey | Republic of Turkey National Report on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda, March 2021, https://webdosya.csb.gov.tr/db/habitat/haberler/bm-habitat--8230-54329-20210817155231.pdf Moynul Ahsan, “Urban Governance in Turkish Global Competitive Cities: A Study on the Right to the City Perspective”, Journal of Civilization Studies, 7(2), 2022: 14-27. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2595265 |
| 14 | General evaluation | Paper presentations |
| Resources |
| Erik Swyngedouw, Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment, The MIT Press, 2018. Robert Muggah, Researching the Urban Dilemma: Urbanization, Poverty and Violence, Ottowa: IDRC, 2012. Christopher G. Boone Michail Fragkias (eds), Urbanization and Sustainability Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change, Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, Verso Books, 2014. |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | 1. Students will know basic concepts and theories of both research and application in political science and public administration. | X | |||||
| 2 | 2. Students will be able to analyze facts about politics, political and constitutional systems, and public administration by taking different dimensions into account. They will also be able to understand the causes of new developments and problems in these fields, find solutions for these problems, and think systematically about them. | X | |||||
| 3 | 3. Students will be able to work in processes such as strategic planning, policy making, project productions, auditing, decision making, evaluation and implementation both in public and private sector, political parties, and non-governmental organizations. | X | |||||
| 4 | 4. Students will be able to deal with complexities stemming from natural or social systems and uncertainties about the facts and values. | X | |||||
| 5 | 5. Students will be able to take active roles in teams formed for producing solutions to the problems related to their own majors, manage activities through planning, and do academic research. | X | |||||
| 6 | 6. Students will be able to collect data in their own field, analyze these data by using technology effectively, and evaluate and critically interpret them. | X | |||||
| 7 | 7. Students will be able to use basic concepts and methods that the administrators would need in various fields such as economics, management, international relations, and communication. | X | |||||
| 8 | 8. Students will be able to use Turkish fluently and correctly in scientific and professional studies. They will also be able to read and understand at least one foreign language. | X | |||||
| 9 | 9. Being always open to learning, students will be able to evaluate the facts with a critical approach. | X | |||||
| 10 | 10. Students will be able to take responsibility in developing projects on voluntary basis and actively participate in them. | X | |||||
| 11 | 11. Students will act with an ethical consciousness and have a respect for to human rights. They will be open to communication with people and able to work in cooperation. | X | |||||
| 12 | 12. Students will be able to constitute high performance structures in public and private institutions by using modern management methods and instruments. | X | |||||
| 13 | 13. Students will be able to enable other groups and institutions to participate in policy-making processes, make decisions open to collaboration, and manage negotiation processes. | X | |||||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
| ECTS / Workload Table | ||||||
| Activities | Number of | Duration(Hour) | Total Workload(Hour) | |||
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 | |||
| Guided Problem Solving | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Resolution of Homework Problems and Submission as a Report | 1 | 20 | 20 | |||
| Term Project | 14 | 3 | 42 | |||
| Presentation of Project / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Midterm Exam | 1 | 30 | 30 | |||
| General Exam | 1 | 40 | 40 | |||
| Performance Task, Maintenance Plan | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total Workload(Hour) | 174 | |||||
| Dersin AKTS Kredisi = Toplam İş Yükü (Saat)/30*=(174/30) | 6 | |||||
| ECTS of the course: 30 hours of work is counted as 1 ECTS credit. | ||||||
Detail Informations of the Course
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| URBANIZATION and ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS | PPA3212126 | Spring Semester | 3+0 | 3 | 6 |
| Course Program |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | English |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Coordinator | Prof.Dr. Ömer Faruk GENÇKAYA |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | Prof.Dr. Ömer Faruk GENÇKAYA |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | This course aims to provide a survey of the interrelated issues and concepts of the social, political, economic, and environmental aspects of urbanization from current perspectives. It explores the political economy of urbanization on different scales and highlights trends in urbanization and sustainability that significantly impact the environment. |
| Course Content | This course contains; General Introduction: Theories, Causes, Consequences,The New Urban Agenda: Habitat III,Urbanization and the Environment,Impacts of Urbanization,Sustainable Development Goals of 2030,Sustainable urban development and human mobility,Sustainable urban development and human mobility,Urban Land and Transformation,Greening Through Cities: Urban Energy and the Climate,Cities and Pandemics,City to City Learning: A Mayors Dialogue,Financing the sustainable urban future,Perspectives on Urban and Environmental Politics in Turkey,General evaluation. |
| Dersin Öğrenme Kazanımları | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1. Explain key debates, concepts and issues in urbanization. | 10, 16, 9 | A, H |
| 2. Explain the relationships between social, economic and environmental systems on a global scale. | 10, 16, 9 | A, H |
| 3. To be able to evaluates the impact of urbanization on environmental issues and solutions. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| 4. To be able to interpret the preconditions of a sustainable urbanization. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| Teaching Methods: | 10: Discussion Method, 16: Question - Answer Technique, 9: Lecture Method |
| Assessment Methods: | A: Traditional Written Exam, H: Performance Task |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Introduction: Theories, Causes, Consequences | Tombari Bodo, “Rapid Urbanisation: Theories, Causes, Consequences and Coping Strategies,” Annales of Geographical Studies, 2 (13), 2019: 32-45. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336987657_Rapid_Urbanisation_Theories_Causes_Consequences_and_Coping_Strategies |
| 2 | The New Urban Agenda: Habitat III | The New Urban Agenda H III, United Nations, 2017. https://habitat3.org/wp-content/uploads/NUA-English.pdf |
| 3 | Urbanization and the Environment | Xuemei Bai, Timon McPhearson, Helen Cleugh, Harini Nagendra, Xin Tong, Tong Zhu, and Yong-Guan Zhu, “Linking Urbanization and the Environment: Conceptual and Empirical Advances”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2017. 42:215–40. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-061128 |
| 4 | Impacts of Urbanization | Erik Swyngedouw, “Urbanization and environmental futures: Politicizing urban political ecologies”, Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology, London and New York: Routledge, 2015, 609-619. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283132606_Urbanization_and_environmental_futures_Politicizing_urban_political_ecologies |
| 5 | Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 | UN, Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development, THE 17 GOALS, 2015, https://sdgs.un.org/goals |
| 6 | Sustainable urban development and human mobility | ODI, Urbanisation and human mobility, 2020, https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/Urbanisation_and_human_mobility_fact_sheets.pdf Urbanization and migration, 10 June 2022, https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/urbanization-and-migration |
| 7 | Sustainable urban development and human mobility | ODI, Urbanisation and human mobility, 2020, https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/Urbanisation_and_human_mobility_fact_sheets.pdf Urbanization and migration, 10 June 2022, https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/urbanization-and-migration |
| 8 | Urban Land and Transformation | Hazal Ilgın Bahçeci, “Capital Accumulation as a Tool for Urban Rent in Turkey”, Journal of US-China Public Administration, 13 ( 2), February 2016: 122-135, http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/576a3b1fcbb46.pdf Handan Türkoğlu, Azime Tezer, Alper İlki, Seda KUNDAK, Urban Planning and Construction for Disaster Mitigation, ISMEP, 2009, https://www.ipkb.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Urban-Planning-and-Construction-for-Disaster-Mitigation-Training-Guideline-for-Community-Represen.pdf |
| 9 | Greening Through Cities: Urban Energy and the Climate | Molly Webb, Andrew Scott, Ipek Gençsü and Derik Broekhof, Urban Energy and the Climate Emergency: Achieving Decarbonisation Via Decentralisation and Digitalisation, London and Washington, DC: Coalition for Urban Transitions, 2020, https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/ 2020/03/ Urban_ Energy_and_the_Climate_Emergency_web_FINAL.pdf Andrei Covatariu, “Urban pollution across the Middle East and Black Sea regions: Causes and mitigation measures”, Middle East Institute, Policy paper, July 14, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/urban-pollution-across-middle-east-and-black-sea-regions-causes-and-mitigation |
| 10 | Cities and Pandemics | Gulati, M., Becqué, R., Godfrey, N., Akhmouch, A., Cartwright, A., Eis, J., Huq, S., Jacobs, M., King, R., Rode, P. 2020. The Economic Case for Greening the Global Recovery through Cities: Seven priorities for national governments, London and Washington, DC: Coalition for Urban Transitions, 2020, https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/ 2020/09/ The_Economic_Case_for_Greening_the_Global_Recovery_through_Cities_web_FINAL.pdf “Conclusions”: UN Habitat, Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future, Nairobi, 2021. 162-171. https://unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/2021/03/cities_and_pandemics-towards_a_more_just_green_and_healthy_future_un-habitat_2021.pdf |
| 11 | City to City Learning: A Mayors Dialogue | Sarah Rosengaertner, “Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity Reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe”, ODI Framing paper, https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/202010_odi_ mayors_dialogue_wp_final_web_updated.pdf |
| 12 | Financing the sustainable urban future | Manisha Gulati et al. The Economic Case For Greening the Global Recovery Through Cities, Seven Priorities For National Governments, https://urbantransitions.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ The_Economic_ Case_for_Greening_the_Global_Recovery_through_Cities_web_FINAL.pdf James Alexander and Darius Nassiry with Sam Barnard, Michael Lindfield, Renard Teipelke and Martijn Wilder, “Financing the sustainable urban future: scoping a green cities development bank”, ODI, Working paper, April 2019, https://odi.org/en/publications/financing-the-sustainable-urban-future-scoping-a-green-cities-development-bank/ |
| 13 | Perspectives on Urban and Environmental Politics in Turkey | Republic of Turkey National Report on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda, March 2021, https://webdosya.csb.gov.tr/db/habitat/haberler/bm-habitat--8230-54329-20210817155231.pdf Moynul Ahsan, “Urban Governance in Turkish Global Competitive Cities: A Study on the Right to the City Perspective”, Journal of Civilization Studies, 7(2), 2022: 14-27. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2595265 |
| 14 | General evaluation | Paper presentations |
| Resources |
| Erik Swyngedouw, Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment, The MIT Press, 2018. Robert Muggah, Researching the Urban Dilemma: Urbanization, Poverty and Violence, Ottowa: IDRC, 2012. Christopher G. Boone Michail Fragkias (eds), Urbanization and Sustainability Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change, Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, Verso Books, 2014. |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | 1. Students will know basic concepts and theories of both research and application in political science and public administration. | X | |||||
| 2 | 2. Students will be able to analyze facts about politics, political and constitutional systems, and public administration by taking different dimensions into account. They will also be able to understand the causes of new developments and problems in these fields, find solutions for these problems, and think systematically about them. | X | |||||
| 3 | 3. Students will be able to work in processes such as strategic planning, policy making, project productions, auditing, decision making, evaluation and implementation both in public and private sector, political parties, and non-governmental organizations. | X | |||||
| 4 | 4. Students will be able to deal with complexities stemming from natural or social systems and uncertainties about the facts and values. | X | |||||
| 5 | 5. Students will be able to take active roles in teams formed for producing solutions to the problems related to their own majors, manage activities through planning, and do academic research. | X | |||||
| 6 | 6. Students will be able to collect data in their own field, analyze these data by using technology effectively, and evaluate and critically interpret them. | X | |||||
| 7 | 7. Students will be able to use basic concepts and methods that the administrators would need in various fields such as economics, management, international relations, and communication. | X | |||||
| 8 | 8. Students will be able to use Turkish fluently and correctly in scientific and professional studies. They will also be able to read and understand at least one foreign language. | X | |||||
| 9 | 9. Being always open to learning, students will be able to evaluate the facts with a critical approach. | X | |||||
| 10 | 10. Students will be able to take responsibility in developing projects on voluntary basis and actively participate in them. | X | |||||
| 11 | 11. Students will act with an ethical consciousness and have a respect for to human rights. They will be open to communication with people and able to work in cooperation. | X | |||||
| 12 | 12. Students will be able to constitute high performance structures in public and private institutions by using modern management methods and instruments. | X | |||||
| 13 | 13. Students will be able to enable other groups and institutions to participate in policy-making processes, make decisions open to collaboration, and manage negotiation processes. | X | |||||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |