Ayse Pamuk

Associate Professor of Urban Studies at SFSU
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994

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Ayse Pamuk is an associate professor of urban studies at San Francisco State University and a visiting scholar at University of California's Institute of Urban and Regional Development. She is the author of Mapping Global Cities: GIS Methods in Urban Analysis (ESRI Press, 2006). Her expertise is in housing and urban policy, international planning, and research methods.  She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for urban planning students at the University of Virginia. She holds PhD and MCP degrees in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley.

Her professional practice includes consulting assignments with The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.  She has advised national and local governments in Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil on low income housing policy. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation grant to integrate GIS into social science research methods curricula. Her research-based articles have been published in leading urban studies and urban planning journals including International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Habitat International, and Journal of Planning Education and Research. She is serving on the editorial board of Journal of Planning Education and Research.

At SFSU, she teaches Data Analysis, Housing Policy, Policy Analysis, Dynamics of the American City, and the Urban Studies Senior Seminar. She is the Director of the Urban Studies Program, an academic unit of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning (1994)
• M.C.P. University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning (1989)
• M.S. Aegean University, Computer Sciences (1987)
• B.C.P. Middle East Technical University, City and Regional Planning (1984)
• Junior international fellowship at the Institute for Policy Studies and graduate study at the Dept. of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (1985-86)

Book 

• Mapping Global Cities: GIS Methods in Urban Analysis. Redlands, Calif.: Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Press, 2006. (Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Working Paper No. 2004-2. Berkeley: University of California). (SFSU project web site: Space, Culture, and Urban Policy) 
  
        Reviewed in    
           - Journal of Planning Education and Research, March 2007, 26(3):375-77.
           - Journal of Regional Science, May 2008, 48(2):474-78.

Chapters in edited books

• "Immigration and urban development" In The Practice of Local Planning edited by Eugenie Birch and Gary Hack. Washington, DC: International City Management Association (ICMA) "Green book" fourth edition. (forthcoming, 2008)

• "Favela-Bairro: New Trends in Upgrading Rio de Janeiro's Favelas" (with Fernando Cavallieri) In FavelaMetropolis edited by Elisabeth Blum and Peter Neitzke. Bauwelt Fundamente 130. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2004, pp. 16- 42 (translated to German)

• "Tools for a Land and Housing Market Diagnosis" In The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and Practices edited by Maria Emilia Friere and Richard Stren. Toronto and Washington, DC: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto and the World Bank Institute, 2001, pp.253-267 (World Bank Institute module) (translated to Spanish & Portuguese)

• "The Role of Nonprofit Housing Builders in the San Francisco Bay Area in Serving Low-Income Households with Special Needs" In Housing Question of the "Others" edited by Emine Komut. Ankara: Chamber of Architects of Turkey, 1996 (translated to Turkish)

Journal articles

• "Geography of Immigrant Clusters in Global Cities: A Case Study of San Francisco, 2000" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28(2): 287-307, June, 2004.
• "Informal Institutional Arrangements in Credit, Land Markets, and Infrastructure Delivery in Trinidad." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(2): 379-396, June 2000.  (based on funded research: Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Housing Production in Developing Countries. Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Cambridge, MA); Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Working Paper No: WP98AP1, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
• "Alleviating Urban Poverty in a Global City: New Trends in Upgrading Rio-de-Janeiro's Favelas" (with F. Cavallieri)  Habitat International 22(4):449-462, October 1998. (project web site: Housing Options of the Poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• "The Price of Land for Housing in Trinidad: The Role of Regulatory Constraints and Implications for Affordability" (with David E. Dowall) Urban Studies 35(2), 1998. (Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Working Paper No. 95-234).
• "The Role of the Institutional Environment in Nonprofit Housing Sector's Performance: The Case of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Region" In the FMF/ACSP-AESOP Housing Track Conference Proceedings, pp.189-208, Washington, D.C.: Fannie Mae Housing Foundation, 1997.
• "HABITAT II and the Globalization of Ideas" (with Michael Leaf). Journal of Planning Education and Research (Fall 1997, Vol:17, No:1, pp.71-78) (also see related material on HABITAT II).
• "Convergence Trends in Formal and Informal Housing Markets: The Case of Turkey" Journal of Planning Education and Research. Vol 16(2): 103-113, 1996. (Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Working Paper No. 589. Berkeley: University of California).
• "Elusive Boundaries of the Informal Housing Sector. Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol:7, 1992.
• Housing in Developing Countries: A Select Bibliography and Field Statement. CPL Bib. 273 Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians, 1991.
• "Preliminary Findings on San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Housing Developers." (with Karen S. Christensen) Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol:4, 1989.

Other Working Papers

• “Residential segregation and immigrant clustering patterns in Europe: Spatial evidence from Paris, Amsterdam, and Stockholm” (with Roger Andersson and Asa Brama) Institute for Housing and Urban Research, WP-54, Uppsala University, Sweden. 2007.

• "Local government response to severe reductions in federal funding for low income housing" (with Karen Christensen and Michael Smith-Heimer) Institute of Urban and Regional Development Working Paper No. 490. Berkeley: University of California. 1988.

Applied Research Reports

• Data for Modules, Space, Culture, and Urban Policy: Integrating GIS into Social Science Research Methods Courses (NSF grant DUE-0228878), SFSU Public Research Institute, Aug. 11, 2003; Sep. 24, 2003 (rev)
• Children Under 5 years of Age in Poverty in San Francisco, SFSU Public Research Institute, January 2003. 
• Spatial Distribution of Family Income and Poverty in San Francisco, 2000.  SFSU Public Research Institute, November 2002. 
• San Francisco's Children & the Need for Head Start Centers (with Richard LeGates, et.al.), Mapping the Children Research Group at Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Feb. 2002.
• Regional Highlights, Bay Area Economic Pulse for the Bay Area Council, Spring 2001 issue (Economic Editor)

Contact information

Urban Studies Program
HSS 263, San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue                                               
San Francisco, California 94132-4155 USA
Tel: 415/338-7045; Fax: 415/338-2391
Email: pamuk@sfsu.edu

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