TEDU Department of City and Regional Planning education aims the Planning Professionals to be the experts on mainly three fields. This is designed by the construction of organic network with different departments of the university.
- The instruction is designed to graduate Urban Planners who will be the experts on Urban Design by the framework of theoretic lectures and studio works which have focused on morphology, life and design of urban space in the Faculty of Architecture.
- Urban Engineering concept includes many fields as Urban Management, Urban and Regional Modeling, Urban Infrastructure, Sustainability, Pollution, Energy etc. TEDU Department of City and Regional Planning department education program aims students to be tempted of being experts on a specific concept from the beginning of its graduate program. Professional ties between departments have been constructed for this aim as well.
- Cities are living entities which have been constructed by mankind to live in. Under these circumstances urban is also an important concept of Social Sciences. TEDU Department of City and Regional Planning aims to equip the planners not only to research but also to be impressive on implementation.
A Pioneering Planning education which will re-define the planning practice and effectively perform it in controlling and shaping the urban environment, is one of the main aims of the department. From this perspective, it is essential to manage an education for city planners working in either public or private sector, to be able to break the blocked framework of construction plan and to design & develop engineering, problem definition and solution proposals beyond.
The Education Program of TEDU Department of City and Regional Planning also aim its students to complete their education with a condensed relationship of contemporary academic and technological developments as well as of professional practices. According to this aim, it is essential to serve a technologically evolving instruction which allows students to criticize new concepts and tools. Nevertheless, it’s also expected students and researchers to follow contemporary academic agendas and guide them.
Mutual education projects and consultancies with several sectors will have an important role to establish the dialogue and cooperation between the society - university and sector – university as well as to contribute the technological developments. It is also a priority to integrate contemporary important subjects of “sustainable product”, “sustainable natural environment and material”, “sustainable creative performance” as the attitudes of design to the educational process and to educate sensible planners.
Instruction is given % 100 in English at the department. This is important to follow both academic and technological developments and to establish a strong and live conversation with contemporary universal design world by the students.