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Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities

Course Code	: ZPM540
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 3
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 3
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 8

Objectives of the Course

This course aims to explain the concepts of urban landscapes and urban ecology, to examine the relation between cities as a cultural-natural landscape and nature, and to discuss sustainable ecological urban planning processes and their implications.

Course Content

Ecological concepts frequently encountered in cities such as sustainability, nature protection, health, development, globalization and climate change, justice and equality will be addressed and associated with landscape planning processes.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Ebru ERSOY TONYALOĞLU

Learning Outcomes

1.	Defining the urban landscapes, describe and evaluate the processes and patterns that characterize urban ecological systems.
2.	Understand biodiversity and ecosystem responses to urbanization.
3.	Recognize energy flows within urban landscapes and how energy use and waste improve or deteriorate environmental quality,
4.	Evaluate the relations of urban landscapes with the concepts of local economy, politics, culture, justice and equality,
5.	Critically evaluate management and policy solutions to urban ecological problems.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Andersson, E. (2006). Urban landscapes and sustainable cities. Ecology and society, 11(1).
2.	Viljoen, A., & Howe, J. (Eds.). (2012). Continuous productive urban landscapes. Routledge.
3.	Forman, R. T. (2014). Urban ecology: science of cities. Cambridge University Press.
4.	Breuste, J., Feldmann, H., & Uhlmann, O. (Eds.). (2013). Urban ecology. Springer Science & Business Media.
5.	Gaston, K. J. (Ed.). (2010). Urban ecology. Oxford University Press.
6.	Gaston, K. J., Davies, Z. G., & Edmondson, J. L. (2010). Urban environments and ecosystem functions. Urban ecology, 35-52.
7.	Antrop, M. (2006). Sustainable landscapes: contradiction, fiction or utopia?. Landscape and urban planning, 75(3-4), 187-197.
8.	Douglas, I., Goode, D., Houck, M., & Wang, R. (Eds.). (2011). The Routledge handbook of urban ecology (p. 664). London: Routledge.
9.	Verma, P., Singh, R., Singh, P., & Raghubanshi, A. S. (2020). Urban ecology–current state of research and concepts. In Urban ecology (pp. 3-16). Elsevier.
10.	Egoz, S., Jørgensen, K., & Ruggeri, D. (Eds.). (2018). Defining landscape democracy: A path to spatial justice. Edward Elgar Publishing.
12.	Jabareen, Y., 2013. Planning the resilient city: Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk. Cities, 31, pp.220-229.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Introduction to course: content, reason, importance, process method and needs

Week 2 - Theoretical

The subject and scope of ecology, Cities, landscape and ecology, Urban landscape and ecology concepts

Week 3 - Theoretical

Agricultural society-natural systems

Week 4 - Theoretical

Industrial society-natural systems

Week 5 - Theoretical

Urban-nature relationship / dilemma, Urbanization and destruction

Week 6 - Theoretical

Climate change and the concept of urban heat island

Week 7 - Theoretical

Urban open and green spaces, Cities and biodiversity, Urban flora and fauna

Week 8 - Theoretical

Urban open and green spaces, Cities and biodiversity, Urban flora and fauna

Week 9 - Theoretical

Basic theories and principle in urban ecology

Week 10 - Theoretical

Urban ecology and landscape planning approaches

Week 11 - Theoretical

Nature conservation in planning legislation and literature

Week 12 - Theoretical

Urban planning and ecological cities, Basic principles and application tools

Week 13 - Theoretical

Discussion: Urban ecosystems and local economy, politics, culture, justice and equality concepts

Week 14 - Theoretical

Discussion: Urban planning and nature relationship, problems and solutions

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%30
Final Examination	1	%70

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	7	3	140
Midterm Examination	1	16	1	17
Final Examination	1	42	1	43
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7
OÇ-1	4		2
OÇ-2	4		5
OÇ-3	4		4
OÇ-4	4		3	5		5
OÇ-5	3		5	5

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