Murat GÜVENÇ, Associate Professor

B.C.P., M.C.P., METU; PhD, METU.

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

Phone: + 90 312 210 6212
E-mail: muratg@metu.edu.tr

Research interests: Urban Geography, Urban History, Methods of Urban Analysis

Current Projects:
Project Director in the following Project:
"Social, Economical and Spatial Transformations in Istanbul 1910-1922: Relational Analyses on the Annuaires Orientals and Chase. E. Goad Plans" Sponsored by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Project No. SBB.8006

Taught Courses
(Graduate level):
SA 502 Quantitative Techniques in Settlement Archeology
CRP 704 Urban Study Workshop (with Prof. T. Senyapılı)
CRP 640 Doctoral Seminar

(Udergraduate level)
CRP 242 Urban Geography
CRP 363 Urban Infrastructural and Environmental Planning
CRP 371 Urban Planning Techniques
CRP 372 Urban Planning Theory
CRP 301 Planning Studio V
CRP 302 Planning Studio VI

Selected Publications:

"Spatial Differentiation with Respect to Employment Status and (Housing) Tenure Types in Turkey's five Metropolises; Relational Analyses" in 1923-1998 a Reassessment; 75 Years of Urban and Architectural Transformation; Y. Sey (editor) The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul (1998) pp.115-138. (In Turkish).

"Spatial Differentiation with Respect to Province of Origin and Disposable Income in Turkey's five Metropolises; Relational Analyses" in International Conference on "History of Turkish Republic: 1923-1998 a Reassessment; (Bilanço, 1923-1998: Ekonomi, Toplum, Çevre) Z. Rona (editor) Vol II, Turkish Academy of Sciences, The Turkish Social Science Association, The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul, 1999, pp. 331-351. (In Turkish).

'Urban Poverty", in Urban Poverty, A. Halis Akder, Murat Güvenç (editors). Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Istanbul 2000 pp. 95-97

'Workplace-Status Based Segregation in Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Area Relational Analyses on the 1990 Census of Population" in Urban Poverty, A. Halis Akder, Murat Güvenç (editors) Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Istanbul, 2000, pp. 99-138. (In Turkish) (includes a new map of Istanbul at the neighborhood level)

"Maps of Istanbul; extracted from the 1990 Census of Population" Istanbul, No. 34, July 2000, pp. 34-40. (In Turkish)

'The Pervititich Maps: An Unfinished Research Project for Istanbul' in S. Ersoy, Ç Anadol (eds.) Istanbul in the Insurance Maps of Jacques Pervititch, The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey. Axa Oyak Istanbul 2000, pp.11-20
(In Turkish with English translation)

"Relational Approach to Urban Research: an overview on spatial differentiation on the basis of workplace and job status in Papers for M. Kıray, Bağlam publications , Istanbul 2000. (In Turkish)

- "Istanbul-Ankara: Social Geographies, Differences, Similarities", Istanbul, No. 36, Ocak 2001, pp. 80-83.

-'Ankara: Spatial Differentiation with respect to Employment Status and Province of Origin" in Ankara in History II, Aysıl Yavuz editor, METU Faculty of Architecture , Ankara ,2001 pp. 17-34.

(with Isık Oguz) (2002) " A Metropolis at the Crossroads: Changing Social Geography of Istanbul within the Context of Globalization" in Of States and Cities: The partitioning of Urban Space , Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen editors, Oxford University Press pp. 200-17.

Co-Author in:

The Window of Opportunity of Turkey: Demographic Transition and its Consequences, Istanbul: Turkish Industrialists' and Bussinessmen's Association (TUSIAD) 1999, Istanbul TUSIAD-T/99-1-251 with Cem BEHAR. Sema ERDER, Oğuz ISIK, Hakan ERCAN) (in Turkish)


Emlak Bankası: 1926-1998, The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul (1999 (in Turkish)

Emlak Bankası: 1926-1998, The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul: 2000 .(English translation)


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