Address: Department of City and Regional Planning, New Building, Room: 401, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 

Phone: +90 312 210 62 01

E-mail: goksun@metu.edu.tr

Website: https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/goksun

  

Education:

PhD          City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University (2022-ongoing)

MSc         Urban Design, Middle East Technical University (2022)        

BSc          City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University (2019)

                 Erasmus in Rome Tre University (2018)

 

Research Interests: Urban form, urban morphology, childhood wellbeing, environmental psychology, participatory planning and design

 

Assisted Courses

CRP 101 Planning Studio I

CRP 102 Planning Studio II

CRP 201 Planning Studio III

CRP 202 Planning Studio IV

CRP135 Graphic Communication for Planners

CRP 146 Introduction to Computers in Planning

 

Publications

Book Chapters

Karadoğan, S., Erişen, Y., Demirkol, G., Şanlı, E. G., Temurer, S., Yıldırım, G., Gürel, E., Aşçı, Y., Abuzaid, H., Falak, H., Tufan, A., & Sönmez, B. (2020). Sustainable urbanism: Envisioning new agents for planning and designing sustainable space. In Z. M. Akkar Ercan (Ed.), Sustainable urbanism: Envisioning new agents for planning and designing sustainable spaces (pp. 11–16). İdealKent.

 

Editorial

Yıldırım, G., & Aydın, N. (Eds.). (2021). Yeni gelecekte kentler ve bölgeler: Değişen dinamikler, yeni sorunlar, değişim ve dönüşümün sunduğu fırsatlar. Akıncı Ofset.

 

Journal Articles

Severcan, Y. C., Yıldırım, G., Aydın, N., Gaga, E. O., Üzmez, Ö. Ö., Çoban, A. B., & Ozarlı, G. (2025). Associations between the built environment and concentrations of outdoor particulate matter in children's everyday places. Habitat International, 165, 103563. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103563

 

Conference Presentations with Published Abstracts

Çoban, A. B., Severcan, Y. C., Ulusoy Severcan, E., & Yıldırım, G. (2024, April 5–6). The relationship between urban form and childhood asthma in Ankara. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Constructed Environment, Vienna, Austria.

Severcan, Y. C., Yıldırım, G., Aydın, N., Gaga, E. E., Üzmez, Ö. Ö., & Çoban, A. B. (2024, April 5–6). Investigating the association between urban form and concentrations of outdoor particulate matter in children's everyday places. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Constructed Environment, Vienna, Austria.

Yıldırım, G., Aydın, N., & Severcan, Y. C. (2023, May 31–June 2). Çocukların mahallelerinde vakit geçirdikleri alanların özelliklerinin mutluluklarına etkisi: Ankara'da mahalle ve cinsiyete dayalı karşılaştırmalı bir araştırma. In Proceedings of the IV. Kentsel Morfoloji Sempozyumu, Konya, Turkey.

Aşçı, Y., Aydın, N., Yıldırım, G., Altıntaş, E., Çoban, A. B., Özgür, F. Y., & Severcan, Y. C. (2022, July 25–29). Physical environmental determinants of children's place attachment: Evidence from children's place attachment maps. In Proceedings of the AESOP Annual Congress 2022, Tartu, Estonia.

Yıldırım, G., Aydın, N., Çoban, A. B., Özgür, F. Y., Altıntaş, E., Aşçı, Y., & Severcan, Y. C. (2022, July 25–29). Exploring the link between built environment and children's happiness in Ankara, Turkey. In Proceedings of the AESOP Annual Congress 2022, Tartu, Estonia.

 

Research Projects

Graduate Research Fellow (M.Sc./Ph.D. Student, Scholarship Student), The Link Between Urban Form, Air Quality and Childhood Asthma (Project No: TÜBİTAK 219K243). Supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

 

Conference Organization

KBAM Kentsel Bölgesel Araştırmalar Ağı (Urban and Regional Research Network) (Secretariat)