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SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
1ARCH545URBAN POLITICS AND (RE)DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN SPACE3+0+03713.05.2025

 
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Master's Degree
Department / Program ARCHITECTURE
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Elective
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course Conceptualizing the allocation of power in modern capitalist society

Identifying and analysing the role of the state in relation to formation of capitalism

Identifying and evaluating the local state theories in relation to abstract state theories.

Examining and discussing the role of the state in urban production
Course Content This course focuses on state theories and their implementations into cities and urban politics. The state is of central importance to the economy and society of modern capitalism. Therefore, the first level of theories will be focus on state and power such as pluralist and elite state theory while the second level focuses on the production of urban space and urban politics such as urban regime and growth machine.
Course Methods and Techniques
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Asist Prof.Dr. SİNAN AKYÜZ
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Barrow, C. W. (1993a) Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neo-Marxist, Post-Marxist, Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie. Univ of Wisconsin Press. doi: 10.1016/0191-6599(94)90099-X.
Bonefeld, W. (1993) ‘Crisis of theory: Bob Jessop’s theory of capitalist reproduction’, Capital & Class. SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 17(2), pp. 25–47.
Brenner, N. et al. (2008) State/space: a reader. John Wiley & Sons.
Clarke, S. (1991b) ‘The state debate’, in The state debate. Springer, pp. 1–69.


Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Yarıyıl İçi Çalışmalarının Başarı Notunun Katkısı 4 % 20
Yarıl yılSonu Sınavı/Dönem Projesinin Başarı Notuna Katkısı 1 % 40
Sunum/Seminer 1 % 35
Diğer (Staj vb.) 1 % 5
Total
7
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Araştırma Ödevi 8 2 16
Münazara 1 3 3
Tartışma 8 1 8
F2F Dersi 14 3 42
Grup Sunumu 1 4 4
Sunum için Hazırlık 1 15 15
Sunum 1 4 4
Okuma 14 3 42
Araştırma 12 4 48
Seminer 8 1 8
Takım/Grup Çalışması 1 4 4
Final Sınavı 1 10 10
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 7 204

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 -LO1: To understand and critically analyze different perspective on power allocation in modern capitalist societies
2 LO2: To provide a higher-level abstract theorization of state and society relationship and in specifically in production of urban space
3 LO3: To provide alternative policies and prevent the condition of the socio-politic instability such as urban violence and racial tension and creating space that can foster social integration of new communities through better tools of participatory urban governance.
4 LO 4: To provide a tool set which we can theorize the modern capitalist state and society
5 -LO 5: To conceptualize recent urban politics in Turkey with critical theoretical perspectives

 
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Pluralist Theory of State LO1, LO4 Pluralist theory implementation to cities and Localities
2 Discussion: Black Civil Right Movements and Pluralist Theory LO1, LO2, LO3 Sources: (Movies and Articles)
3 Elite Theory of State LO1, LO2, LO4 Local State implementation i) Growth Machine ii) Urban Regime Theory
4 Discussion: 2008 Housing Crisis and Elite theory of State LO1, LO2, LO3 Sources: Movies and Articles
5 Managerialist Approach to State LO1, LO2, LO4 Urban managerialism
6 Discussion: Brexit and Anti-intellectualism LO1, LO2, LO3 Source: Articles, Documentaries
7 Ara Tatil
8 Instrumentalist Theory of State LO4, LO1 Political Structuralist theory of State
9 Economic structuralist Theory of State
10 Strategic Relational Approach LO1, LO2 New state spaces
11 Planetary Urbanization and Changing Socio-Spatial Patterns Of Urban Practices
12 The development of Urban politics in Turkey 1
13 The development of Urban politics in Turkey 2
14 Discussion: Neoliberal Urban Hegemony: Urban Transformation and the Large-Scale Urban Projects

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12
All 4 5 3 4 2 3 3 3 2 3 5
C1 4 5 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 3 5
C2 4 5 2 4 2 3 3 4 3 3 5
C3 3 4 3 5 2 3 2 5 2 4 5
C4 4 5 2 5 2 3 3 3 2 3 5
C5 4 5 4 4 2 2 4 4 3 4 5

  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant

  
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