Physical Environmental Quality and Urban Design Education  in Palestine and Turkey

Ebru Cubukcu; Fahmi Salameh

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v1i4.138

Authors

Ebru Cubukcu Dokuz Eylul University
Fahmi Salameh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v1i4.138

Abstract

Urban designers fail to design high quality environments either because of economical constraints orÂ educational limitation. This study aims to compare physical environmental quality and education system in two countries, Palestine and Turkey. The quantity of design education departments in each country, the course contents in each department, the quantity and profession of instructors in each department, presence of a course related to environment and behaviour studies or design theories were compared. What needs to be improved in design education to create better environments is discussed as well as the directions for future studies.

Â© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peerâ€“review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Keywords: Urban design, environmental aesthetics, environmental quality

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