Tan Yigitcanlar is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology and an Executive Director at the World Capital Institute, Brisbane, Australia. He has been responsible for resear
...MoreTan Yigitcanlar is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology and an Executive Director at the World Capital Institute, Brisbane, Australia. He has been responsible for research, teaching, training and capacity building programs on the fields of urban and regional planning, development and management in esteemed Australian, Finnish, Japanese and Turkish universities. The main foci of his research are advocating and promoting knowledge-based urban development and sustainable urban, infrastructure and transport development in city-regions. He is an Associate Editor of the ‘International Journal of Knowledge Based Development’ and ‘International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology’, and carries the Chairman role of the annual ‘Knowledge Cities World Summits’. He has extensively published in the field and his publications include two authored books—‘Knowledge and the City’, ‘Sustainable Urban Water Environment’—and six edited books—‘Knowledge-Based Urban Development’, ‘Creative Urban Regions’, ‘Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies’, ‘Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development’, ‘Rethinking Sustainable Development’, ‘Building Prosperous Knowledge Cites’.
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