Tan Yigitcanlar Author & Editor

Tan Yigitcanlar has a multi-disciplinary background and almost two decades of work experience in private consulting, government, and academia. Currently a researcher at the School of Urban Development, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) the main focus of his research is promoting knowledge-based urban development and sustainable transportation. He has been responsible for a wide variety of teaching, training, and capacity building programmes on varied topics in urban planning, environmental science, policy analysis, and information and communication technologies in Turkish, Japanese, and Australian universities. Professor Yigitcanlar is co-editor of Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era (2008) and Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives (2008).