Understanding the Effectiveness of Recent Attempts in Turkish Planning Schools in Promoting Interdisciplinary

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2014-07-12

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Balaban, Osman
Babalık, Ela
Gedikli, Bahar

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Urban space is an agglomerate of not only physical elements but also socio-economic relations and processes which are ever deepened by advanced information and communication technologies. Vis-à-vis the complexity of urban space, urban planners often collaborate with professionals from other disciplinary domains, ranging from engineering sciences to social sciences. Given the ever increasing interdisciplinary nature of urban planning, planning education should develop in such ways to prepare students for interdisciplinary work. In other words, the curriculum of planning schools should include such educational means as courses or workshops where students are introduced to reasons and practices of collaboration with other disciplines. However, there is no “one size fits all” solution to this issue, as practical implications of planning profession vary among different contexts. Thus, the necessary adjustments to the curriculum need to be made by taking local context and requirements into consideration. This paper aims at elaborating on the achievements and shortcomings of urban planning education (for the Bachelor Degree) in Turkey to prepare students for interdisciplinary work. The study both provides a review of different attempts in introducing more interdisciplinary collaboration models in teaching in Turkish planning schools, and reports on the outcomes of a questionnaire carried out on planning practitioners and students. The questionnaire seeks to find out the respondents’ opinions about the adequacy of their educational background for interdisciplinarity, positive or negative experiences they have encountered, and effects of different approaches employed by planning schools to promote interdisciplinarity. An underlying objective of the research is to provide a better understanding of the current state of interdisciplinary work in planning practice in Turkey. The study concludes with implications and recommendations for Turkish planning education.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79416
https://doczz.net/doc/2953889/ebook-of-abstracts---esa-conference-bureau

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AESOP Annual Conference 2014: From control to co-evolution, (9 - 12 Temmuz 2014)

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Department of Environmental Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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O. Balaban, E. Babalık, and B. Gedikli, “Understanding the Effectiveness of Recent Attempts in Turkish Planning Schools in Promoting Interdisciplinary,” presented at the AESOP Annual Conference 2014: From control to co-evolution, (9 - 12 Temmuz 2014), Utrecht, Hollanda, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79416.