METU City and Regional Planning
Faculty of Architecture
City and Regional Planning, part of METUs Faculty of Architecture, is the department that "designs" not buildings, but cities themselves. Questions like how a neighborhood should grow, how a citys transportation network should be structured, where green spaces should be located, and how residential, commercial, and industrial zones should be balanced all fall within this departments area of work.
While the curriculum shares a studio/project culture as intensive as architectures, it includes far more social science coursework (urban sociology, economics, public policy, environmental law). This means the field requires not just drawing skills, but also data analysis, map reading (GIS — Geographic Information Systems), and an understanding of social dynamics.
Graduates work at municipalities urban planning departments, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, private planning/consulting firms, international development organizations, or in academia. Given Turkeys rapid urbanization and urban transformation processes, demand for graduates of this department continues to grow.
Anyone choosing this department should be interested not just in buildings, but in how people live together, should be socially conscious, and should have a balanced interest in both numerical and verbal/analytical coursework.
While the curriculum shares a studio/project culture as intensive as architectures, it includes far more social science coursework (urban sociology, economics, public policy, environmental law). This means the field requires not just drawing skills, but also data analysis, map reading (GIS — Geographic Information Systems), and an understanding of social dynamics.
Graduates work at municipalities urban planning departments, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, private planning/consulting firms, international development organizations, or in academia. Given Turkeys rapid urbanization and urban transformation processes, demand for graduates of this department continues to grow.
Anyone choosing this department should be interested not just in buildings, but in how people live together, should be socially conscious, and should have a balanced interest in both numerical and verbal/analytical coursework.
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