Koray Velibeyoglu

Koray Velibeyoglu (korayvelibeyoglu@iyte.edu.tr) is a researcher in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey. His teaching interests and methods cover project-based courses in urban planning and design as well as urban information and communication technology policy for planning. The main focus of his research clusters around urban information and communication technology policy-making and knowledge-based development processes. He is an expert in understanding networked urbanism and the impacts at the metropolitan and local level and the role of information and communication technologies in sustainable urban development. Professor Velibeyoglu 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).

Publications

E-Planning Applications in Turkish Local Governments
E-Planning Applications in Turkish Local Governments
Koray Velibeyoglu. © 2010. 15 pages.
This chapter examines the pivotal relationship between e-planning applications and their organizational context. It employs various evaluation frameworks by searching explicit...
Strengthening the Knowledge-Base of Cities Through ICT Strategies
Strengthening the Knowledge-Base of Cities Through ICT Strategies
Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu. © 2009. 7 pages.
The chapter sets out to explain the KBD processes and challenges and opportunities in information acceptance and use in urban policy making. This chapter draws on providing a...
Information and Communication Technology for E-Regions
Information and Communication Technology for E-Regions
Koray Velibeyoglu, Tan Yigitcanlar. © 2009. 6 pages.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are essential components of the knowledge economy, and have an immense complementary role in innovation, education, knowledge...
Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives
Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives
Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu, Scott Baum. © 2008. 390 pages.
In a knowledge economy urban form and functions are primarily shaped by global market forces rather than urban planning. As the role of knowledge in wealth creation becomes a...
Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era
Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era
Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu, Scott Baum. © 2008. 372 pages.
In the globalizing world, knowledge and information (and the social and technological settings for their production and communication) are now seen as keys to economic...
Understanding the Supply Side: ICT Experience of Marmara Region, Turkey
Understanding the Supply Side: ICT Experience of Marmara Region, Turkey
Koray Velibeyoglu, Tan Yigitcanlar. © 2008. 18 pages.
Marmara region’s local governments in Turkey are setting the benchmark for the country in the implementation of spatial information systems and e-governance. The chapter aims to...
Spatial Transformations in Istanbul CBD: The Role of ICT?
Spatial Transformations in Istanbul CBD: The Role of ICT?
Feral Geçer, Adile Arslan Avar, Koray Velibeyoglu, Ömür Saygin. © 2008. 22 pages.
Now with the intensive use of information and communication technologies, many cities around the world are competing to become a global city. Istanbul is enumerated within the...
Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments
Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments
Koray Velibeyoglu. © 2008. 9 pages.
Since the end of 1980s, different sectors have implemented geographical information systems (GIS) in Turkey. A study on GIS market in Turkey indicates that municipalities are the...
Queensland's Smart State initiative: a successful knowledge based urban development strategy?
Queensland's Smart State initiative: a successful knowledge based urban development strategy?
Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu. © 2008. 16 pages.
During the last two decades knowledge based development has become an important mechanism for knowledge economies. In a knowledge economy information and communication technology...
Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments
Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments
Koray Velibeyoglu. © 2005. 6 pages.
Since the end of 1980s, different sectors have implemented geographical information systems (GIS) in Turkey. A study on GIS market in Turkey indicates that municipalities are the...