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KNT 524 - The Quality of Life and Urban Parameters

Graduate Education Institute · Urban Studies and Management · Master

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Şahika ÖZDEMİR

Course Objective

Describes the concept of urban living quality, components of urban living quality, the quality of space and emphasizes the importance of urban open-green spaces among the components of urban living quality in this lesson.

Course Content

Urban life quality concept, Urban life quality components, Urban life quality parameters

Required Resources

COURSE NOTES

Recommended Resources

Derya Oktay, Kentsel Yaşam Kalitesi, 2010, EMUPRESS

Explanations

In certain weeks group work and individual work will be an in-term exam and a comprehensive final exam.
 
1. Exam dates are as if they were announced on tablature. The topics of the examinations will be announced before a reasonable time. Compensation examinations will be given for examinations that are not entered in the framework of excuses accepted according to the regulations.
2. The final exam covers subjects that have been processed for the whole semester. The final exam day, time and place will be announced by the Deanery.

Rules

1. Attendance: According to the regulation, if a student does not attend 70% of the total course hours, dersten absenteeism (DZ) fails.
2. Late arrivals: The class is expected not only to arrive but to attend classes on time. Remember that 3 lessons will be counted as 1 full absence. Late arrivals are defined as follows: The lecturer will take class polling and attend class after the first 10 minutes of class
3. Getting help: It is important for your education to ask questions about the class during the class or during the class hours and to find out what time it is. We advise our students to get help if necessary.
4. Academic honesty: It is expected that you will have your own endeavors and your work in studies that will be subject to note of the course. In non-moral situations, such as plagiarism or copying, you will be subject to disciplinary action and necessary criminal sanctions as required by the relevant regulation of the IZU
5. The assessments set forth in this footnote are fixed and no extra compensation measurements for grading will be made.

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Urban open-green areas contribute to the quality of life.
  2. They are informed about the concept of urban quality of life.
  3. They are informed about increasing the quality of urban life.

Core Area Distribution

(58) Architecture and Building%90

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionSelf study

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)15345
Out of Class Study Period15230
Midterm000
Quiz000
Assignment23366
Practice000
Final14545

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1The aim of the course is to explain its scope and goals.Browsing sources
2The concept of urban living qualityBrowsing sources
3The concept of urban living qualityBrowsing sources
4The subjective components of urban life qualityBrowsing sources
5The subjective components of urban life qualityBrowsing sources
6Objectives of urban living qualityBrowsing sources
7Space qualityBrowsing sources
8MidtermMidterm
9Urban space quality parametersBrowsing sources
10Urban space quality parametersBrowsing sources
11Studies to improve the quality of cities and urban spacesBrowsing sources
12The importance of urban open-green areasPresentation preparation
13Contribution of urban open-green areas to quality of lifePresentation preparation
14Student presentationsPresentation preparation
15Student presentationsPresentation preparation
16Final examFinal exam