Murat Ölmez
Urban Planner, WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities
Bio
Murat Ölmez is an Urban Planner at WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities.
Prior to joining WRI, he worked as an urban planner at UCTEA Chamber of Urban Planners Istanbul Branch and on the editorial staff for the Journal of Planning. He also worked for an urban planning company and prepared implementation plans and bicycle route plans in several areas in Istanbul.
Murat holds a B.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from Dokuz Eylül University and M.S. in Regional Planning from Istanbul Technical University.
Murat is interested in pottery and graphic design.
Projects
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Cycling for All in Turkey
Empowering cycling NGOs to better engage in policy- and decision-making through capacity development and mentoring -
Parklet Istanbul
Making Istanbul safer and more pedestrian-friendly with traffic-calming parklets