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EZGİ KÜÇÜK

URBAN PLANNING COORDINATOR, MARMARA MUNICIPALITIES UNION

She completed her undergraduate education in Urban and Regional Planning in the faculty of Architecture at İzmir Institute of Technology, and then she finished her graduate studies in Urban Design at Istanbul Technical University. She is currently workin towards her doctorate degree on Urban and Regional Planning at Istanbul Technical University. She continues her academic researches within Turkish Network of Urban Morphology. She published her researches on urban morphology of Istanbul within International Seminar of Urban Form (ISUF) in the years of 2014 (in Porto, by the support of TUBITAK) and 2017 (in Valencia).

She has been working as Urban Planning Coordinator at the Marmara Municipalities Union (MMU) since 2014. She is the director of MMU Urban Policy Center that supports scientific research on cities and local governments, organizes workshops and discussion platforms. She is also the editor in chief of Şehir & Toplum journal published by MMU Cultural Publications.

She coordinated several scientific events organized by MMU such as Bilge Mimar Turgut Cansever Sempozyumu (Wise Architect Turgut Cansever Symposium) in order to discuss the architectural perception of Cansever; International Children City’s Congresses, first in 2015 within the context of child and city connection regarding urban design and local administration practices and after in 2016 the interaction between what immigrant children faced and their new city in cooperation with UNHCR and UNICEF.

She coordinated the Meeting of the Minds: Globalization and Word City Network in 2018 with participation of the academics from local universities and Globalization and Word City Network in cooperation with Izmir Economy University. She conducts works on city networks, data explanation and visualization.

She is interested in urban morphology, property relations, urban design, local administration and participation, urban sociology and urban indexes as well as graphic design, arts of painting and comic book in private.