Introduction

Introduction;

Urban Planning deals with planning today’s cities prospectively, in order to leave livable and sustainable urban environments to future generations. Urban Renewal, on the other hand, is a developing field for this purpose under the discipline of Urban Planning.

The methods used to solve the physical, social, environmental and economic problems that arose in the world, especially in western European cities, following the industrial revolution, brought the birth of the Urban Renewal discipline.

Today, Urban Renewal is a field that requires specialization and is applied within a holistic planning approach in order to eliminate the risks in the areas where the city is exposed to social and physical decay and to mitigate both natural and human induced risks. Urban Renewal requires creating a complex and multi-component organizational structure that cannot be reduced to purely physical transformation. Therefore, in practice, the renewal process in an urban space should be planned and carried out by a team of experts from different disciplines, in accordance with the principles of public interest and urbanism.

The problem is the fact that renovation practices are creating other urban risks in incompetent hands. It will be possible to inherit safe and livable urban environments to future generations, only with practices that will be implemented without ignoring the basic principles of Urban Planning, but by utilizing the expertise of other relevant fields. For this reason, the main focus should be on creating a common language between experts from different disciplines working on various components of the Urban Renewal process. In addition to the fundamental courses consisting of compulsory and elective, the program has a rich elective course plan comprising the fields of urban planning, urban design, urban development policies and legislation, environment and disaster, sociology, and urban economy. In this way, beside the fundamentals, the student will be able to tend towards elective courses related to the subject he/she wants to specialize in.

Candidates with a bachelor’s degree from departments such as Urban and Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Survey Engineering, Sociology, Law, Economy, Public Administration can apply to the program. The jury may recommend a short scientific preparation program, parallel to main courses, for some successfully accepted candidates who have a bachelor’s degree other than Urban and Regional Planning, taking into account the undergraduate programs of these candidates and the transcript evaluation.