MISSION

To be among the most respected departments in our country and internationally by educating planners, designers, and researchers who follow and discuss developments in the world, develop original ideas and synthesize them into our country’s planning practice; are sensitive to natural and cultural values, have professional ethics and principles of fairness, can establish international collaborations, establish the relationship between planning and design and can develop the technology used in these processes, and are effective in national/international and multidisciplinary studies.

VISION

To be a respected department in the national and international arena by educating city and regional planners who are committed to scientific and ethical principles in the field of planning, conducting original research and producing information at national and international levels, and making rational solutions to environmental, social, and urban problems.