Organization name
04.03. Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Director
City
Konya
Country
Turkey
City
Konya
Description
Our department, which was founded in 1994 at Selcuk University, has now been operating officially under the roof of Konya Technical University, Faculty of Architecture and Design since 2018. The department, which maintains educational activities with limited opportunities in the first years of its foundation, is a planning school with more than 25 years of institutional experience, having access to different opportunities both in quantity and quality. Konya, as a historical city, has been getting stronger in the recent years with its transportation investments that connect the city with the other important cities of the country. The fact that the planning studies carried out since the 1960s have made Konya a “planned city” that contributes significantly to the educational activities in the Department. In addition, Erasmus, Mevlana and Farabi student/staff exchange programs, as well as the opportunity to make double major-minor programs are the factors that support the professional development of our students. The vocational education provided in the department consists of theoretical and practical courses. Information on different areas such as urban design, urban conservation, urban sociology, urban history, urban transportation, urban economy, regional planning, urban management, strategic planning, zoning law, implementation and control of plans, planning for disabled people, geographic information systems, tourism planning is learned within the scope of theoretical courses. This information is transformed into concrete products with plans developed on a regional and local scale within the scope of planning studio modules. As it can be understood from the subjects on which the vocational education process is based, urban and regional planning is an interdisciplinary profession that has close relations with many fields such as architecture, engineering, economics and sociology.
Country
Turkey