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The ECLAS Conference 2019 will take place in Ås, Norway in September 16-17. Read more
Burcu Yigit Turan is associate senior lecturer in the subject area of “planning in cultural environments” at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Division of Landscape architecture. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2010 from Vienna University of Technology, defending her dissertation titled ‘Complexity of Meanings in Urban Landscapes: Between the Imagined and the Real’. Burcu practiced, studied and taught landscape architecture and urban planning and design in different geographies such as Turkey, the Netherlands, Austria, the United States and Sweden. Her current work has revolved around the issues of social justice, migration, urbanisation, and ethics and politics in landscape architecture.