Urban Form and Conservation Lab.

 

 

A Ph.D. student in our group is expected to pursue highly ‘original’ and ‘intellectually-inspiring’ scholarly research on urban forms, change in development patterns, social and environmental impacts of urban growth, urban mobility and diversity, and urban design responses to economic/environmental crises. Fundamental understanding of empirical research methods, such as quantitative analysis using regression models or repeated site observations using survey techniques, is required. A bit of academic exposure to visual studies, architectural design, spatial analysis using GIS, remote sensing, land-use/land-cover (LULC) modeling is highly recommended. A 2-3 page research proposal written in English will be very helpful in understanding your fittedness for a painstaking academic path in the group. Please let me talk with you at least 6 months before your application. Partial/full tuition funding as well as sharing of the office space and academic resources will be provided for the accepted Ph.D. students, if he or she would like to collaborate with the faculty for a selected number of research projects.
Master’s students will walk through two different tracks. One is an urban design concentration (practice-based program) and the other is to focus on urban studies (research-based program). Merit-based scholarship will be given to students who became a recipient of a design prize from domestic/international competitions (for practice-based students) or who published a research article in an international journal with an impact factor higher than 0.5 (for research-based students). Graduate/undergraduate students from departments of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, environmental engineering, and other social science programs are welcome.