Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz
Assistant Professor and Director of City Planning and Urban Affairs Masters Program
The question at the core of Dr. Sungu’s work is: what factors influence cities’ economic, social, and environmental sustainability? In searching for answers, she has worked with academics, practitioners, civic leaders, community organizers, and policy analysts.
Her publications cover innovation-oriented economic development, brownfield redevelopment, community land trusts, and inter-organizational collaboration in disaster management.
She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. She also worked as a research associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, MA.