This course aims to help students gain a rapid overview of the enormous span of urban regeneration issues and activities and to offer them a guide to urban regeneration that is comprehensive, accessible and practical. The objectives of the course are therefore:

i) to introduce the origins, challenges and purposes of urban regeneration, and bring the more detailed discussions that urban regeneration contains into the class;

ii) to introduce basic notions and dimensions of urban regeneration, such as partnership, strategy and the lessons that may be gained from the case studies;

iii) to provide students with an introduction to the basic themes and topics that are fundamental to an understanding of the urban regeneration process;

iv) to introduce students to the issues that govern the ways in which urban regeneration proceeds and how it is organized;

v) to offer the experience of urban regeneration in the world and Turkey;

vi) to distil the significant lessons from the past and present experience of urban regeneration to identify the future role of and prospects for urban regeneration in Turkish cities.