CRP 330 PLANNING THEORY 
2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR / SPRING SEMESTER

Meets:                 Tuesday  14.00-17.00

Instructor:            Assist.Prof.Dr.Ezgi Orhan 

Office hours:        M 10.00-12.00, , Th 10.00-12.00, or by appointment

Office:                 B 206                                                          

E-mail:                ezgiorhan@cankaya.edu.tr

Phone:                2844500-390                      

Aim

The primary goal of this class is to assure that undergraduate students have a general, substantive command of the spectrum of past and present perspectives regarding planning theory. This course aims to provide a background for the legacy of modernist planning and architecture, and it covers the leading thinkers and schools of thought and is primarily focused on western ideas about planning.

Learning Outcomes

(1) Familiarity with the core (as well as emerging) arguments in planning theory, their origins and contexts, their relation to wider social, political, economic, environmental, etc. theories.

(2) Evaluation of planning theory with respect to social justice, welfare, public benefit and citizen rights in a historical perspective

(3) Understanding the concepts of democracy, participation, negotiation in planning and evaluation of these concepts with spatial practices 

Course Content
Evolution of planning with respect to the changes in scientific thought and principle approaches of planning; physical planning, its origins and critiques; Explaining planning theories in a historical perspective; comprehensive rational planning, its roots and critiques; strategic planning, its scope and critiques; instrumental rationality and communicative rationality; public benefits, negotiation and participation in the changing structure of planning; the legitimacy of planning; planning ethics; power and conflict in planning; the changing role of planner