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BSc (City and Regional Planning), Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey MSc (City and Regional Planning), Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey PhD (Urban Planning), Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Biography:
Fatih is a Geographical Information Services Officer at Logan City Council. He is an urban and transport planner with comprehensive geographical information system and programming knowledge. He has eight years of teaching and research experience in urban planning and geographical information system disciplines. He is particularly interested in researching on the topics of sustainability of urban development and evaluation, urban modelling, decision support systems, remote sensing, and spatial analysis.
PhD Thesis Title:
The Integrated Land Use and Transportation Indexing Model: Assessing the Sustainability of the Gold Coast, Australia
PhD Research Summary:
Urban sustainability and sustainable urban development concepts have been identified as the goal of many contemporary planning endeavours and have become central concepts on which the urban development policies are formulated. In the confinement of these concepts, land use and transport integration has been highlighted as one of the most important policy objectives considering the interrelationship between them and available intervention means of planning. While its interpretation varies, in Australia, it has been embraced as integration of land use and transport planning/policies and been an integral part of regional and local plans. Accordingly, a few principles have been defined to guide its implementation, to name a few, planning for compact and connected urban development, encouraging active transport modes, creation of mixed-use activity centres and public transport precincts, provision of high-quality public transport services, and enhancing character and amenity of urban areas. However, there is lack of an evaluation framework to measure the extent of achievement of implementation of these principles. In pursuit of filling this gap, this study aims to devise an evaluation framework to measure the performance of urban settings according to the integration principles in South East Queensland, Australia context and to demarcate problematic areas which can be intervened by planning tools.