Street address
Environmental Design Program, Environmental Design Building, CB 314, CU-Boulder,
Boulder CO 80903-0314
Electronic mail address
sancar@spot.colorado.edu
Web address
http://spot.colorado.edu/~sancar/Home.html
Office phone
303-604-2033
FAX number
303-492-6163
I have spent the first half of my career developing collaborative approaches for environmental, landscape, and urban planning and design and testing them in the field in applied projects. These efforts involved intensive use of quantitative social science methods as well as various computational models to be used as decision aids. For a variety of reasons I abandoned emphasizing computational models in the second half of my academic life and stuck with traditional social science approaches. I investigated knowledge integration in the studio and the social dynamics of design review processes in small towns. However, all through these years I also studied environmental aesthetics and the vernacular.These studies reflect my general interest in integrating traditionally separate academic and practical domains: Urban and regional planning, architecture and landscape architecture; academic research/scholarship and professional practice; expert and public knowledge and values.
Research and Professional Interests:
Design Research; System Dynamics; Urban Planning; Urban Design-Design Review; Aesthetics; Traditional/Historic Settlements
Editorial, Institutes, Review Activities
Co-Editor of The Journal of Children, Youth and Environments (2004-2015)
Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Design (2003-present)
Co-Chair of Urban Design Track, ACSP Conference (2001-2005)
Grant Referee for the European Commission, Coastal management (2009)
Grant review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts (1992-1995)
Founding Member of the Center for Children Youth and Environments, University of Colorado
Honors and Awards
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Commission For Educational Exchange, United States State Department. 2001.Certificate of Recognition by the McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (in honor of commitment to diversity and exemplary service in mentoring McNair scholars)
2002Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Cornell University. 1981
O.E.C.D. Cooperative Action Program, Study Mission Scholarship. 1978
Refereed Articles, Proceedings, Book Chapters
I have published work on:
You can see my publications by topic and download them in PDF in the publications page.
I have been a member of the APA and ACSP, and Environmental Design Research Association.
Here is the list of courses I have taught.
Fahriye Hazer Sancar has served as a Professor, Chair and Associate Chair in the Department of Planning and Design-College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver between 1995 and 2011. She retired in December of 2011 and is Professor Emerita since then. She is a graduate of Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture. She has a Master of Science from the Architecture Department and a Ph.D. from the Department of Man Environment Relations, both at the Pennsylvania State University. Following two years at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh as an instructor of Environmental Design, she returned to Turkey and worked at the Marmara Industrial Research Institute in the Operations Research Unit as a researcher, in the Department of Operational Research and Statistics and the System Sciences Research Institute at the Middle East Technical University. After returning to the US, in 1981-1995 she taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Institute for Environmental Studies (Land Resources and Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Programs) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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In academia I have been able to focus on things that are of personal interest to me-- afterall, that is why most of us are here. The three publications that I enjoyed writing the most are "The Turkish Landscape,""Turkish Cuisine,"and "City, Music, and Place Attachment: Beloved Istanbul (Sevgili Istanbul)." These are also the most plegiorized-- this I take as a badge of honor. I thought I would never retire, I was wrong-- I took early retirement. I hope that young people will be more effective (than I have been) in affecting the direction of the discipline and the university. |