Department of Urbanization and Enviromental Problems analyzes dynamic relations and interactions between urban and politics, the problems and caused by urbanization and its results, the enviromental effects of urbanization in consideration of their legal, socio-political and economic parameters. The prominent study fields of this department could be defined as the historical developments of cities, urbanization theories, local governments, urban planning and its problems, urbanization law, enviromental policies, enviromentalism as a political ideology, global envromental issues, urbanization in Turkey and its problems. This department aims to enable the students to analyze the relation between politics and cities/urban as well as the environment from a multi-dimensional perspective so that the students could analyze the dynamic interraction between the social, economic and enviromental factors at local, national and global level.