Ayda ERAYDIN, Professor (Consultant to the Dean of the faculty of Architecture)

B.C.P., M.C.P, METU; PhD, Istanbul Technical University

Department of City and Regional Planning
Faculty of Architecture METU Ankara 06531

Phone: + 90 312 210 6229
E-mail: ayda@metu.edu.tr, eraydin@arch.metu.edu.tr

Current Projects:
SMEs, Economic Development and Regional Convergence in Europe, COST A17-EU
Sanayi Odakları Deneyimine Dayalı Olarak Bölgesel Gelişme Kuram ve Politikalarının Yeniden Tanımlanması, TUBİTAK

Taught Courses:
RP 501 Regional Planning Studio I
RP 534 Changing Economic and Political Structure
RP 532 Methods of Regional Analysis
CRP 418 The Theory of Economic and Spatial Development
CRP 450 New Spaces of Growth and Productıon

Selected Publications / Awards:
2004 Global networks as open gates for regional innovation systems (Eds C. Alvstram and E. W. Schamp, Industry in a Networked World, Ashgate: Aldershot (forthcoming)
2004 The Changing Roles Of Female Labour In Economic Prosperity And Decline: The Case Of Istanbul Clothing Industry, (Eds L. Nelson and J.Seager Companion to Feminist Geography (Blackwell Publishers) forthcoming
2003 Regional Economic Growth, SMEs and the Wider Europe, co-editors A. Eraydın, B. Fingleton and R. Paci, Ashgate, Aldershot
2003 Dynamics and agents of regional growth: The performance of SME clusters in Europe, (Eds B. Fingleton A.Eraydın and R. Paci) Regional Economic Growth, SMEs and the Wider Europe, Ashgate, Aldershot
2002 Yeni Sanayi Odakları: Yerel Kalkınmanın Yeniden Kavramsallaştırılması (New Industrial Districts: The Reconceptualisation of Local Economic Development) METU Press: Ankara 2002
2002 The local embeddedness of firms in social networks in Turkish industrial districts: the changing role of networks in local development (Eds M. Taylor and S. Leonard) Social capital and the Embedded Enterprise: International Perspectives (Ashgate: Aldershot) 269-289
2002 Building up competence, institutions and networks in order to catch up in the knowledge economy (Eds R. Hayter and R.LeHeron) Knowledge, Territory and Industrial Space (Ashgate: Aldeshot) 67-87
2001 New forms of governance in the emergence of industrial districts (Ed M. Taylor and D.Felsenstein) Promoting Local Growth: Process, Practice and Policy (Ashgate: Aldershot) 81-104
2001 Regional labor markets, growth and SMEs, Regional Economies in Transition, Uddevalla Symposium June 2001: University of Trollhatten, Uddevalla p. 217-233
2001 Bemühungen zum Ausgleich der regioalen Diskrepanzen in der Turkei-Die Bedeutung des Entwicklungs-projects für Südostanatolien, 2001, Politische Studien, 2001, Sept/October, 379, 76-87
1999 Yeni Üretim Süreçleri ve Kadın Emeği (The production and labor processes in Turkish textile industry and female labor) T.C. Başbakanlık Kadının Statüsü ve Sorunları Genel Müdürlüğü, 1999 December:Ankara
1999 The Role of Female Labour In Industrial Restructuring: New Production Processes And Labour Market Relations In The Istanbul Clothing Industry, Gender, Place and Culture, 1999,6, 3, 259-272
1998 Challenge of the periphery: LDC Industrial Districts, 1998, (Ed. K.I. Westeren) in Cross border cooperation and strategies for development in peripheral regions (NTF: Oslo)

Awards:
2002 Mustafa Parlar Yılın Eğitimcisi Ödülü
2001 Mustafa Parlar Yılın Eğitimcisi Ödülü