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KNT 524 - The Quality of Life and Urban Parameters

Graduate Education Institute · Urban Studies and Management · Master

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Dr. Olcay AYDEMİR

Course Objective

Describes the concept of urban living quality, components of urban living quality, the quality of space and emphasizes the importance of urban open-green spaces among the components of urban living quality in this lesson.

Course Content

Urban life quality concept, Urban life quality components, Urban life quality parameters

Required Resources

Lecture notes.

Recommended Resources

Lecture notes.

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Urban open-green areas contribute to the quality of life.
  2. They are informed about the concept of urban quality of life.
  3. They are informed about increasing the quality of urban life.

Core Area Distribution

(58) Architecture and Building%90

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionSelf study

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)15345
Out of Class Study Period15230
Midterm000
Quiz000
Assignment23366
Practice000
Final14545

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1The aim of the course is to explain its scope and goals.Browsing sources
2The concept of urban living qualityBrowsing sources
3The concept of urban living qualityBrowsing sources
4The subjective components of urban life qualityBrowsing sources
5The subjective components of urban life qualityBrowsing sources
6Objectives of urban living qualityBrowsing sources
7Venue qualityBrowsing sources
8MidtermMidterm
9Urban space quality parametersBrowsing sources
10Urban space quality parametersBrowsing sources
11Studies to improve the quality of cities and urban spacesBrowsing sources
12The importance of urban open-green areasPresentation preparation
13Contribution of urban open-green areas to quality of lifePresentation preparation
14Student presentationsPresentation preparation
15Student presentationsPresentation preparation
16Final examFinal exam