
Dr. Deniz Ay
PostDoc
- deniz.ay@giub.unibe.ch
- Office
- 112
- Postal Address
- University of Bern
Institute of Geography
Urban & Regional Planning
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern - private website
- www.denizay.net
Curriculum Vitae
2020- | Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Geography, Political Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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2019-2020 | Research fellow, Brussels Center for Urban Studies / Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
September 2018- January 2019 |
Visiting
Researcher, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland |
2015-2018 | Lecturer and Senior Research Associate, The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture- City and Regional Planning Section |
2016 | Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
2013-2015 | Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) |
2011-2013 | Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Finance |
2009-2011 | Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics |
2008-2009 | MSc. in Economics (Research), The London School of Economics and Political Science (Specialization in Development Economics |
2008 |
BA
in Economics, Sabanci University, Turkey |
2007-2008 | Teaching and Research Assistant, Sabanci University, Turkey. |
Research Interests
- Transnational Planning
- Urban governance
- Immigration
- Urban transformation
- Housing policy
- Spatial justice
Publications
Ay, D. Forthcoming. Empowering Cities to Make Immigrant Integration Happen. In: Adam, I., Schuermans, N., Trauner, F. (eds.). Migration, Equality, and Racisms. VUB Press.
Dedekorkut-Howes, A., Ay, D. and Demires-Ozkul, B. 2020. Two Decades of Planning for Earthquake Resilience in Istanbul. In: Rukmana, D. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South. Routledge. 215-230.
Ay, D. 2019. Diverging Community Responses to State-Led Urban Renewal in the Context of Recentralization of Planning Authority: An Analysis of Three Urban Renewal Projects in Turkey. Habitat International, 91. Doi.
Ay, D. 2017. Book Review: Cities of the Global South Reader, by Miraftab, F. and Kudva, N., Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Ay, D. and Miraftab, F. 2016. Invented Spaces of Activism: Gezi Park and Performative Practices of Citizenship. In: Hammet, D. & Grugel J. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of International Development. Palgrave MacMillan. London. 555-574.
Manuscripts under review:
Ay, D. Welcoming City Movement: Mobilizing Cities for Local Immigration Policy with Transnational City Networks. (Special Issue at International Migration Review)
Ay, D. and Demires-Ozkul, B. The Strange Case of Earthquake Risk Mitigation in Istanbul: An Unconventional Megaproject for the Aspiring Global City. (Revise-and-Resubmit)
Presentations
2020 | Politics of Urban Detransformation: Precarious Spaces and the Institutional Bottlenecks for State-led Urban Renewal, KBAM (Urban and Regional Research Network, Turkey), September 2020. |
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2019 | Transnational City Networks: Immigration Policymaking and Knowledge Exchanges, Workshop: Cities and the global governance of migration, Migration Policy Centre- European University Institute, Florence, Italy, October 2019. |
2019 | City Networks and Local Immigrant Integration: Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange, Brussels Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Immigration and Minorities (BIRMM) Research Day, Brussels, Belgium, April 2019. |
2018 |
(De)Centralization of Planning Authority and Uneven Community Responses to State-led Redevelopment: An Analysis of Three Urban Renewal
Projects in Turkey, AESOP Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2018. |
2016 | Mitigating Risk in the Risk Society: An Unconventional Megaproject for the Aspiring Global City Istanbul, ACSP Conference, Portland, OR, November 2016. |
2015 | Is it Possible to Plan Urban Renewal that does not Cause Displacement? A Comparative Analysis of National Urban Renewal Program in Turkey, International Sociological Association RC 43 Housing and the Build Environment, Chicago, IL, September 2015. |
2015 | Invented Spaces of Activism: Gezi Park and Performative Practices of Citizenship, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2015. |
2014 | Practices of Citizenship: Gezi Park, American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2014. |
2014 | Emerging Model for Disaster Mitigation in Istanbul: How the World Bank Project is Assembled through Policy Mutation, ACSP Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2014. |
2014 | Commodification of Risk through a Transnational Megaproject in the “Emerging Global City” of Istanbul, Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics Conference, SASE, Chicago, IL, July 2014. |
2013 | Understanding the Relevant City Characteristics in Countrywide Urban Renewal Planning: State-led Urban Renewal in the Context of Disaster Mitigation in Turkey, Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, Dublin, July 2013. |