About the Final Exam

In the final exam, regular students will answer a vocabulary quiz worth of 25 points + 3 questions each 25 points... Erasmus students will answer 3 questions, each 33 points. All the questions will be coming from these question pools. 

There is also an optional question that you can answer before class. Those who give answer to this question will answer two questions, instead of three, in the exam. (again this is optional, you may choose to answer three questions)

Optional Question of 25 points: write a short essay with any topic you choose, not longer than one page A4, using and giving reference to at least three of the readings or/and the examples given in these readings... try to create relationships among these papers and write a coherent paper... 

QUESTION POOL I: AFTER MID-TERM: (at least one question will be asked from this pool)

1. Chapter 02: What is the central role MHA (TOKI) played  in the urban renewal processes of Istanbul? (page 21)
2. Chapter 06: Describe the unique form of gentrification in Florence. Why is it so different? (page 51)                    
3. Chapter 07: Who are winners and who are losers from urban growth in South East England?(page 69)
4. Chapter 11: Explain the tensions and contradictions between the two groups that form the coalition of “On Broadway Inc” in Green Bay, Wisconsin, focusing of the different motivations/aims/needs each group has. (page 111-112)
5. Chapter 12: what are the conclusions we can derive from the urban transformation of Can Ricart, Barcelona? (page 128)
6. Chapter 13: What is the most difficult task in mobilization of local residents regarding the Casa della Citta experience and why is it important/necessary? (page 138)
7. Chapter 16: What is LDT? (explain its function, structure, funding mechanism etc…)  (page 163)
8. Claims from Beirut: What is difference between procedural public space and topographical public space? (pdf page 3)

QUESTION POOL II: BEFORE MID-TERM: (at least one question will be asked from this pool)

1.   “A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, out of the presence of strangers, as the streets of successful city neighborhoods always do, must have three main qualities”:  According to Jacobs, what are the three main qualities of the streets of successful neighborhoods? Give an example of a street in Istanbul that carries these traits by giving a description about the street life?
2. According to Harvey, what is the relationship between the crisis of capitalism and urbanization? Elaborate this relation by giving examples from/reference to recent urban developments in Turkey or elsewhere.
3. Ahmed Soliman mentions four basic shelter strategies for the poor in Cairo in the post-war era. What are they and how are they different or similar with the shelter strategies of the rural migrants in Turkey in the same period?
4. Draw the scheme of Manchester in 1844 considering the descriptions of Engels and discuss briefly the distinctive social, functional and physical features of the early industrial city. Evaluate this situation by using concepts we use in urban sociology.
5. By using the perspective of (and giving reference to) Jacobs, raise at least two critics on Robert Moses’ implementations in New York city.
6. In what ways the interventions of Moses to the public space resembles to that of Haussmann’s? In what ways do they differ?