EXPLORING THE DATASET: QUANTITATIVE, QUALITATIVE AND SPATIAL

In the remaining days of our Planning Field Course research groups worked on exloring the quantitative, qualitative and spatial data that they gathered before, during, and after the fieldwork in Zonguldak and producing their research reports under the guidance of course mentors. The Field Course will have a finish with the submission of research reports and their presentations by research groups, guided by the following assessment.

Assignment 6 Assessment and presentation of research findings

Using the quantitative, qualitative and spatial data analysed during our field course as well as the impressions collected in your field study in Zonguldak, and keeping with the theoretical discussions we had throughout the course, write an assessment of the process of deindustrialisation and urban shrinkage in Zonguldak.

MENTAL MAPPING

So we are done with coding the landuse survey data. Now we have a landuse map of Zonguldak. Well done!

Now is the time to work on our memories of the field survey. We started the day with an in-class assignment of 'mental mapping', following Lynch (1960) and asking students to make sketches of two maps created from their memories of a) the city of Zonguldak and b) the wider region it is located, revealing the different elements of the city and the region.

In-class work: Mental Mapping

You are asked to produce sketches of 2 maps: one the map of the city of Zonguldak, and the other the map of the TR81 region. You are expected to produce the two maps by 'Mak(ing) (them) just as if you (are) making a rapid description of the city to a stranger, covering all the main features. We don’t expect an accurate drawing- just a rough sketch.' (Lynch 1960, p 141)

After a given amount of time, 

the students hanged their mental maps on the wall...

Then we started discussing about...

... the region and the city.

And finally compared the two mental maps with the real maps...

... in order to see what was missing and what we DID remember correctly. It was a fun project!