Serap KAYASU, Associate Professor (Associate Dean of the Faculty of Architecture)

B.C.P., METU; M.A., University of Waterloo; PhD, METU.

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

Phone: + 90 312 210 2202, + 90 312 210 2226
+ 90 312 210 4212
Email:kayasu@arch.metu.edu.tr

Research interests: Local and Regional Economic Development: Territorial Governance and Institutional Processes; Impacts of Globalization and New Institutionalism on Urban and Regional Planning Processes; Urban, Metropolitan and Regional Governance; Women and Space Interaction: Women in the City; Dynamics of Female Labour in Global Restructuring Processes.

Current Projects: The Evaluation of Research and Educational Infrastructure of Faculty of Architecture at METU in the Context of International Settings: 1980-2005 (METU, BAP Projects, 2004).

Taught Courses:
CRP 401 Planning Studio VII
CRP 402 Planning Studio VIII
CRP 466 Labour Dynamics in Global Restructuring Processes
CRP 485 Gender Issues in Urban and Regional Planning
CRP 556 Urban and Regional Transformation in the Global Age: Policy and Planning
CRP 488 Institutional Aspects of Urban and Regional Planning

Selected Publications / Awards:
'Conceptualizations of the Region in the Global Context: A New Agenda for Planning?' Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning and Informatics to Planning in an Era of Transition Conference Proceedings, Athens, pp. 271-83, 1997.

'Changing World Orders, Changing Women: Changing Context of Gender', Toplum ve Bilim, 75:170-79, 1998.

'Planning in the Age of Globalization', Ekistics, 63: 144-47 ,1999.

'On Institutionalization and a New Paradigm in Planning', Planlama, The Chamber of City and Regional Planners, 4: 52-55, 2002.

'Women and Space Interaction' in Architecture and the Identity of Women, Boyut Books, Arredamento Mimarlik, pp. 101-105, 2002.

'Reconceptualization of Region and Regional Economic Development: Regional Development Agencies', Tenth National Regional Science/Regional Planning Conference Proceedings, pp. 69-80, Istanbul, 2002 (with Yasar, S.S.)

Local and Regional Economic Development and Competition: Regional Development Agencies, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Publication, Publication No: 2003-08, 2003 (with Pinarcioglu, M.; Yasar, S.S.; Dere, S.)

'An Evaluation on Urban Transformation: Observations, Conceptualizations', Urban Transformation Conference Proceedings, pp. 20-28, Istanbul, 2003 (with Yasar, S.S.)

Awards:
University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship and Award for Outstanding Performance, !984-1988

International Peace Scholarship for Women, 1985-1986


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