The aim of this course is to enable students to experience the landscape planning process through a studio-based approach using a selected study area. Within the scope of the course, students are expected to evaluate natural, cultural, socio-economic, and spatial landscape components together and to identify the problems, opportunities, pressures, and potentials of the area through field observations, data collection, and analytical studies. The course also aims to improve students’ abilities to relate inventory, analysis, and synthesis processes to planning approaches and to produce maps, reports, and oral presentation outputs.

In this course, the inventory and analysis stages of the landscape planning process are addressed through theoretical and practical studies based on a selected case study area. The natural, cultural, socio-economic, and spatial characteristics of the study area are evaluated through fieldwork, observations, data collection processes, and spatial analyses. The course includes landscape character assessment, natural and cultural landscape inventory studies, land use analysis, accessibility analysis, user relationships, environmental pressures, problem-opportunity relationships, and spatial analysis studies. At the end of the semester, students are expected to prepare analytical maps, inventory studies, reports, and presentation outputs. Course assessment is based on field studies, workshop activities, analytical map productions, report studies, and individual examinations. The midterm evaluation constitutes 45% of the overall grade and includes the midterm exam (15%), the first project submission (15%), the first report study (5%), and the first two workshop activities (10%). The final evaluation constitutes 55% of the overall grade and includes the final exam (15%), the second project submission/analytical maps (15%), the final report (5%), field study outputs (10%), and the last two workshop activities (10%).