1. ARC 303 Prof. Vesna Hercegovac-Pasic vesnaherc@gmail.com
INTERNATIONAL BURCH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT of
ARCHITECTURE
ARC 303
CİTY PLANNİNG AND URBAN DESİGN
Spring Term
Prof. Vesna Hercegovac-Pasic

2. Class Schedule: Monday: 14:00-17:45
Office Hour: Open Door Policy

3. Course Objectives
Introduction of City/Town Planning Theory and Methodology
Understanding Development of Urban Theory: historical Background; Urban genesis; Postulates; Principles; Criteria
Understanding the relationship between the Concept; Composition; Structure; Form; Scale; Function and Content through the social - economic - cultural Context

4. Textbooks
Urban Design: Green Dimensions by Cliff Moughtin and Peter Shirley, / obligatory
Urban Design: Street and Square by Cliff Moughtin and Miguel Mertens, 2003
Urban design: Urban Concept & Urban Composition/ basic - script by V.H.Pasic, 2011

5. Brief Contents Introduction – general
Spatial and Urban Planning, Regional and Sustainable Development, Urban Design/socially, economically aspect
Legislation, Methodologie, Hyerarci, Polycie, Procedure
Research, Analyzes, Valorization of Data, Community Planning. Syntheses, Proposing.
Concept, Composition, Procedure of Verification, Implementation
Relationship between Theory and Practice, Conflict : Formal – Informal

6. Brief Contents Urban tendencies / attempt, effort
Collaborative urbanism
Urban Transformations. Urban Mutations
Urban Design. Contex vs Content, Urban Catalyst, Urban Acupunture
Organizing Models, Levels and Elements of Composition/Concept
Historic Compositions,Contemporary Compositions
Abstract forms. Reading of Town space through: topography, typology, density, facility, scale
Urban Form and Urban Function.The City Picture

7. Grading 1. Subject Research 30% 2. Paper Presentation 30%
Final Examination %

8. Presentation Introduction – general
Spatial and Urban Planning, Regional and Sustainable Development, Urban Design/socially, economically aspect
Legislation, Methodologie, Hyerarci, Polycie, Procedure
Research, Analyzes, Valorization of Data, Community Planning. Syntheses, Proposing.
Concept, Composition, Procedure of Verification, Implementation
Relationship between Theory and Practice, Conflict : Formal – Informal
Urban tendencies / attempt, effort

9. Presentation Collaborative urbanism
Urban Transformations. Urban Mutations
Urban Design. Contex vs Content, Urban Catalyst, Urban Acupunture
Organizing Models, Levels and Elements of Composition/Concept
Historic Compositions, Contemporary Compositions
Abstract forms. Reading of Town space through: topography, typology, density, facility, scale
Urban Form and Urban Function.The City Picture