Prof. ZÜBEYDE MÜGE AKKAR ERCAN

Academic Titles

2018 - Continues Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2012 - 2018 Associate Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2005 - 2012 Assistant Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2003 - 2005 Lecturer PhD

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
1995 - 2003 Research Assistant

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning

Managerial Experience

2023 - Continues Faculty Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2019 - Continues Department Academic Incentive Evaluation Commission Member

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2018 - Continues Applied Research Center Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Presidency Office, TAÇDAM
2018 - Continues Erasmus Program Institutional Coordinator

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2018 - Continues Faculty Academic Council Member

Middle East Technical University, Presidency Office, CONFUCIUS CENTRE
2015 - Continues Applied Research Center Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Presidency Office, MODSIMMER
2013 - Continues Mevlana Exchange Program Institutional Coordinator

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2021 - 2022 Member of Department Strategic Planning Commission

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2012 - 2018 DOKTORA YETERLİLİK KOMİSYON ÜYESİ

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2014 - 2017 Faculty Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2013 - 2017 Coordinator of Faculty Training Program

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2009 - 2011 Faculty Management Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
2006 - 2007 Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning

Non Academic Experience

2019 - Continues Member of Management Comittee

COST CA18137 European Middle Class Mass Housing MC meeting
2019 - Continues Short-term scientific mission grant coordinator

COST CA18110 Underground4value
2019 - Continues Working Group 3 - Planning Vice-Leader

COST CA18137 European Middle Class Mass Housing MC meeting
2019 - Continues Doktora tez izleme komitesi üyesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Peyzaj Mimarlığı Bölümü
2019 - Continues Doktora tez izleme komitesi üyesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Coğrafya Bölümü
2019 - Continues Member of Management Committee

COST CA18110 Underground4value
2019 - Continues Doktora Tez İzleme Komitesi Üyesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Peyzaj Mimarlığı
2017 - Continues Doktora tez izleme komitesi üyesi

İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü
2015 - Continues Tez İzleme Komitesi üyesi

Gazi Üniversitesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama
2008 - Continues Assistant professor

METU
2003 - Continues Instructor/Reader

METU
2021 - 2021 TÜBİTAK 2237-BİLİMSEL ETKİNLİK PROGRAMI DEĞERLENDİRME

TÜBİTAK
2021 - 2021 ANKARA 16. İDARE MAHKEMESİ BİLİRKİŞİLİK

İDARİ YARGI KURULUŞLARI
2021 - 2021 TÜBİTAK 1002 HIZLI DESTEK PROJE ÖNERİSİ DEĞERLENDİRME

TÜBİTAK
2020 - 2020 2214-A Yurt Dışı Doktora Sırası Araştırma Bursu Dış Danışman

TÜBİTAK
2019 - 2019 Doktora Tezi Jüri Üyeliği

Ankara Üniversitesi Peyzaj Mimarlığı
2019 - 2019 PhD Examiner

Eastern Mediteranean University
2005 - 2008 Assistant Professor

METU
1995 - 2003 Assistant

METU

Courses

Undergraduate URBAN REGENERATION: STRATEGIES, POLICIES, ORGANISATION AND DESIGN
Undergraduate PLANNING STUDIO I
Undergraduate URBAN CONSERVATION PLANNING
Doctorate Advanced studies in City and Regional Planning
Postgraduate URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II
Undergraduate INTRODUCTION TO URBAN DESIGN
Postgraduate URBAN DESIGN STUDIO I
Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 4
Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 3
Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 8
Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 7

Advising Theses

PLACE-MAKING FOR KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION IN TURKIYE: THECASE OF METU TECHNOPARK, ANKARA

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

İ.TUÇ(Student), Doctorate, 2024
Home feeling of Turkish diaspora in Gaggenau, Germany: A cross-generational case study

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

A.SARI(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
Exploring the perceived cultural heritage values of different stakeholders in four historical neighborhoods in kütahya

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

A.BAŞAK(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
Integrating sustainable socio-economic development into management systems of cultural world heritage sites: The case of Herculaneum, Italy

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.DUZCU(Student), Doctorate, 2023
Islamabad and automobile dependency: A consequence of modernist urban planning

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Z.FAİZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
Assessment of urban heat: approaching walkability from a multi-scalar perspective

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.MUSHTAQ(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
Regenerating cultural quarters in Pakistan: The case study of Lahore

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

H.Riaz(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
The Impact of Physical Environmental Design on Users' Sense of Safety in Open Spaces: Increasing Palestinian Refugees' Sense of Safety in Open Spaces in Baqa'a Camp in Jordan

Severcan Y. C., Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Co-Advisor)

H.Abuzaid(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
WATER SENSITIVE URBAN DESIGN: A TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH AS PART OF THE URBAN FORM

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

T.SÖZER(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Investigating the spatial quality perception of open public space users in historical touristic places: The case of Bellapais monastery, Beylerbeyi village, North Cyprus

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.GÖK(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
The role of urban agriculture in sustainable urban development, creation of social bonds and community formation

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Y.ERİŞEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
IDENTIFICATION OF EVACUATION ZONES BY SUPERPOSED HAZARD MAPPING METHOD IN CASE OF A HYPOTHETICAL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT: THE CASE OF AKKUYU NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Akkar Ercan Z. M., Tüydeş Yaman H. (Co-Advisor)

B.DEMİRYAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Interactions of suburb design, suburban life and popular culture, a comparative study of Levittown-NY and Levent-İstanbul between 1950-1980

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

A.ERÇİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
A Post-Pandemic Reassessment of the New Urbanism Principles

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Y.YAĞIZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
DEVELOPING URBAN DESIGN INPUTS TO ENHANCE THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE GREEN AREAS IN CITIES FROM ECOSYSTEM SERVICES PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF ÇANKAYA DISTRICT IN ANKARA

Akkar Ercan Z. M.

F.AYTAÇ(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Dynamics of non-conforming spaces in a planned modern city: The case of France colony in Islamabad

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

H.TARIQ(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
Questioning the spatial boundaries in suburban residential sites in Ankara: The case of koru neighborhood

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Z.IRMAK(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
Mobility and the role of pedestrian in making public space: Mersin coastal park

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Z.SARA(Student), Doctorate, 2020
Dynamics of non-conform spaces in a planned modern city: the case of France colony in Islamabad

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

H.Tariq(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
INVESTIGATING MODERN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE THROUGH VALUE BASED MAPPING OF ZONGULDAK CENTRAL SCRUBBER AREA

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

N.NİDA(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
PUBLIC ART IN PUBLIC SPACE: TRACKING GRAFFITI AND MURAL ART PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY TEHRAN

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.ZARE(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
CO-GNITO AS A SERIOUS GAME TO UNDERSTAND USERS' URBAN PERCEPTION

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.GÖRÜCÜ(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
ANALYZING SAFETY TOWARD A WALKABLE CAMPUS: A CASE-STUDY OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (METU)

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.RASHIDI(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
HOW TO DEVELOP A SUSTAINABLE RURAL-URBAN FRINGE (RUF) FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF URBAN AND RURAL ACTORS? THE CASE OF DÖŞEMEALTI IN ANTALYA

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Y.OKUDAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
INVESTIGATING ACTORS AND PERCEPTIONS IN THE CONCEPT OF SMART CITY: THE CASE OF HAMBURG

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

M.CAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
INVESTIGATING THE MORPHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SPACES: THE CASE OF ATAKUM COASTAL PROMENADE IN SAMSUN

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

V.ER(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Urban regeneration: enabling social sustainability in historical quarters via adaptive reuse: Case of Gaziantep historical quarter

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

E.DUYGU(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
An implementation of a new sustainable design approach on public spaces: The case of Ulus Square

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.KARADOĞAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
HUMAN TERRITORIAL FUNCTIONING AT THE SCALE OF RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

N.OYA(Student), Doctorate, 2019
Co-gnito as a serious game to understand users’ urban perception

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

S.Görücü(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Urban form and walkability: The assessment of walkability capacity of Ankara

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

A.Ak(Student), Doctorate, 2018
A policy framework for sustainable tourism management in historic cities: The case of Amasya

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

M.Sağıroğlu(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Defining in-betweenness as a new spatial form the case of Durana, Albania

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

E.Alimadhi(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
The Archaeological sites as living components of the city the case of Ayasuluk Hill in Selçuk / İzmir

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

L.Mirjam(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Changing Identity of Public Spaces: Güven Park In Ankara

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.Sarıkulak(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Planning for sustainable communities in suburban residential neighbourhoods: The case of Ümitköy, Ankara

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

M.Açmaz(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Challenges of coastal resort towns regarding second home developments: Challenges of coastal resort towns regarding second home developments : the case of Ayvalık

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

M.Gülcan(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Increasing walkability capacity of historic city centers: The case of Mersin

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Z.Sara(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
Changing sense of place in historic city centers : the case of Antalya Kaleiçi

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

G.Argın(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
Inclusivity of public space : changing 'inclusivity' of an urban park, Gençlik Parkı, Ankara

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

N.Oya(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
Assessing Ankara Metropolitan Municipality‘s public art approach in ankara since the mid-1990s

AKKAR ERCAN Z. M. (Advisor)

Ö.Yalçınkaya(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
Urban transformation within the interface of design and administration: The case of Izmir Harbour

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Y.Acar(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Increasing walkability in public spaces of city centres: The case of Tunali Hilmi street, Ankara

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

P.GHADİMKHANİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Understanding perceptions regarding the aesthetics of urban public space: Tunali Hilmi Street, Ankara

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

Y.PEHLİVANOĞLU(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Questioning 'sustainability' of forest lands allocated and used for tourism in Turkey

Akkar Ercan Z. M. (Advisor)

S.Biter(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
The assessment criteria of urban regeneration projects: The case of the Fener-Balat Districts in Istanbul

Akkar Ercan Z. M.

S.Duzcu(Student), Postgraduate, 2006

Designed Lessons

Undergraduate Introduction to Urban Design

Akkar Ercan Z. M.

Taught Courses And Trainings

2020 - 2020 UNDERGROUND4VALUE TRAINING SCHOOL

Application Research Center - Training

Akkar Ercan Z. M.

Designed Courses And Trainings

September 2022 MIDDLE-CLASS MASS HOUSING STAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP

Academic Units - Training

Akkar Ercan Z. M.

Academic and Administrative Experience

Academic Titles

2018 - Continues Professor

2012 - 2018 Associate Professor

2005 - 2012 Assistant Professor

2003 - 2005 Lecturer PhD

1995 - 2003 Research Assistant

Managerial Experience

2023 - Continues Faculty Board Member

2019 - Continues Department Academic Incentive Evaluation Commission Member

2018 - Continues Applied Research Center Board Member

2018 - Continues Erasmus Program Institutional Coordinator

2018 - Continues Faculty Academic Council Member

2015 - Continues Applied Research Center Board Member

2013 - Continues Mevlana Exchange Program Institutional Coordinator

2021 - 2022 Member of Department Strategic Planning Commission

2012 - 2018 DOKTORA YETERLİLİK KOMİSYON ÜYESİ

2014 - 2017 Faculty Board Member

2013 - 2017 Coordinator of Faculty Training Program

2009 - 2011 Faculty Management Board Member

2006 - 2007 Deputy Head of Department

Non Academic Experience

2019 - Continues Member of Management Comittee

2019 - Continues Short-term scientific mission grant coordinator

2019 - Continues Working Group 3 - Planning Vice-Leader

2019 - Continues Doktora tez izleme komitesi üyesi

2019 - Continues Doktora tez izleme komitesi üyesi

2019 - Continues Member of Management Committee

2019 - Continues Doktora Tez İzleme Komitesi Üyesi

2017 - Continues Doktora tez izleme komitesi üyesi

2015 - Continues Tez İzleme Komitesi üyesi

2008 - Continues Assistant professor

2003 - Continues Instructor/Reader

2021 - 2021 TÜBİTAK 2237-BİLİMSEL ETKİNLİK PROGRAMI DEĞERLENDİRME

2021 - 2021 ANKARA 16. İDARE MAHKEMESİ BİLİRKİŞİLİK

2021 - 2021 TÜBİTAK 1002 HIZLI DESTEK PROJE ÖNERİSİ DEĞERLENDİRME

2020 - 2020 2214-A Yurt Dışı Doktora Sırası Araştırma Bursu Dış Danışman

2019 - 2019 Doktora Tezi Jüri Üyeliği

2019 - 2019 PhD Examiner

2005 - 2008 Assistant Professor

1995 - 2003 Assistant

Courses

Undergraduate URBAN REGENERATION: STRATEGIES, POLICIES, ORGANISATION AND DESIGN

Undergraduate PLANNING STUDIO I

Undergraduate URBAN CONSERVATION PLANNING

Doctorate Advanced studies in City and Regional Planning

Postgraduate URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II

Undergraduate INTRODUCTION TO URBAN DESIGN

Postgraduate URBAN DESIGN STUDIO I

Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 4

Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 3

Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 8

Undergraduate URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 7

Advising Theses

Designed Lessons

Undergraduate Introduction to Urban Design

Taught Courses And Trainings

2020 - 2020 UNDERGROUND4VALUE TRAINING SCHOOL

Designed Courses And Trainings

September 2022 MIDDLE-CLASS MASS HOUSING STAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP