Urban and regional planning deals with the development and change in the built and natural environment, the forces that affect change and their management. Geography, economics, sociology, architecture, ecology is a creative activity in the intersection of many scientific fields such as planning. It requires the ability, knowledge and skills to produce and implement applicable ideas and projects for the future of urban and rural areas. The main principles of education and training in our department are environmental protection, habitable settlements and spaces, effective resource usage and management. Its aim is to create an education and training environment that allows planner candidates to develop their understanding, knowledge and technical skills in order to ensure that the settlements are compatible with the natural environment in which they are located, and to increase their livelihood levels in the broadest sense (physical, social, economic, aesthetic, etc.). The course aims to prepare the student to analyze, evaluate and produce policies and solutions to the effects of competing parties and interrelated political, economic, social and environmental actors (forces) on the formation of spaces from scales to districts. In this context, Department of Urban and Regional Planning courses are divided into three main groups. The first group of courses is aimed at increasing knowledge; structure and functions of urban settlements; theory and history of planning action and implementation; this course includes managerial, legal and political aspects of plan-making and policy applications. In addition, the program allows students to deepen their knowledge on at least one specific topic. The second group of courses focus on the skills needed in planning; problem identification / research, research and data collection; quantitative analysis of data; problem solving, making plans, and designing programs; synthesis and transfer of knowledge to practice; written, oral and graphic expressions; This course covers the courses in which skills such as computer technology will be used in various stages of planning.
The third group of topics / courses are aimed at assimilating the values that are essential to planning; equality, social justice, economic prosperity, and efficient use of resources; local democracy; balancing individual and community benefits; protection of natural, social and cultural assets; It aims to adopt values such as professional practice ethics by the planner candidate. (It aims to inform and adopt the students about each social and human values that are included in the planning and the ethics of practice.) Ethics and values should be discussed and discussed from a wide range of independent courses.
The program allows students to improve their knowledge and skills in one of the three areas (as in general planning), housing, tourism planning, urban design - in one of the three classes starting from the third grade.
