İzmir Institute of Technology is one of two institutions of higher learning in Turkey
offering English-language instruction in City and Regional Planning. In recognition of
the fact that keeping abreast of international developments is vital already in the
undergraduate stages of the profession of planning, we have developed library;
laboratory, and Internet facilities so as to enable international research and pursue
multilingual thinking in the field.

Today in this country, we stand in urgent need of planners capable of developing
solutions to the dire urbanization problems which we face and for which we pay
dearly each day. Our goal is to breed the humane planner who, by embracing all
social strata, will deploy professional knowledge, skill, responsibility and sensibility;
and exert them in the process of urbanization in the coming decades.

The ultimate goal of the Department of City and Regional Planning is, therefore, the education of individuals capable of perceiving and questioning every facet of life as well as space, and exercising free expression in the process.