Ayse Pamuk

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, San Francisco State University
http://bss.sfsu.edu/pamuk

Title/Position:

Associate Professor & Department Chair

Bio/Research Summary:

Ayse Pamuk is a tenured associate professor and chair of Department of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Mapping Global Cities: GIS Methods in Urban Analysis (ESRI Press, 2006). Her expertise is in housing and urban policy, international planning, and research methods.  She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for urban planning students at the University of Virginia. She holds PhD and MCP degrees in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley.

Her professional practice includes consulting assignments with The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.  She has advised national and local governments in Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil on low income housing policy. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation grant to integrate GIS into social science research methods curricula. Her research-based articles have been published in leading urban studies and urban planning journals including International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Habitat International, and Journal of Planning Education and Research. She is serving on the editorial board of Journal of Planning Education and Research.