Dr. Fahriye Hazer Sancar聽is a Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning at Environmental Design in the University of Colorado聽Boulder. Her prior faculty/research positions were at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (1974-1976), Marmara Technical and Industrial Research Institute (1977-78), Middle East Technical University (1978-1981), and University of Wisconsin-Madison (1981-1994). She arrived at the University of Colorado as a Full Professor in 1995 and has served as Associate Chair and Chair of the department of Planning and Design, worked as a founding member of the Children Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design (now CEDAR), as Co-editor of the CYE Journal, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Design, and reviewer for numerous journals and conferences. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2001. Her areas of study are planning and design theory, land use and design regulations, place attachment, environmental aesthetics, active living research, heritage preservation and tourism development. Her funded research and publications have focused on politics of and methods for collaborative planning in the context of these substantive areas.