{"id":2458,"date":"2016-01-21T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T22:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/?page_id=2458"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:19:07","slug":"sungu-eryilmaz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/people\/faculty\/sungu-eryilmaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assistant Professor
\nProgram Director, City Planning and Urban Affairs<\/h3>\n

Expertise:<\/h3>\n

Urban Planning; Public Policy; Sustainable Cities; Mixed Methods Research;\u00a0GIS<\/p>\n

Education:<\/h3>\n

PhD University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
\nMCP University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
\nBCP Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey<\/p>\n

Courses:<\/h3>\n

UA 589: Research and Evaluation
\nUA 591: Applied Analytical Methods
\nUA 598: Foundations of GIS and Spatial Analysis
\nUA 642: Geospatial Intelligence for Urban Analysis<\/p>\n

Biography:<\/h3>\n

The question at the core of Dr. Sungu\u2019s work is: what factors influence the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of cities? In searching for answers, she has worked with academics, practitioners, civic leaders, community organizers, and policy analysts.<\/p>\n

Her publications range from innovation-oriented economic development to brownfields redevelopment and from community land trusts to inter-organizational collaboration in disaster management.<\/p>\n

She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University. She also worked as a research associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, MA.<\/p>\n

Contact Information:<\/h3>\n

Phone:<\/strong> (617) 353-5814
\nEmail: <\/strong>yesims@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Program Director, City Planning and Urban Affairs Expertise: Urban Planning; Public Policy; Sustainable Cities; Mixed Methods Research;\u00a0GIS Education: PhD University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA MCP University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA BCP Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Courses: UA 589: Research and Evaluation UA 591: Applied Analytical Methods UA 598: Foundations of GIS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7968,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2458\/revisions\/11532"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}