Deniz Çam is an Urban Planner and master’s student in Urban Planning and Policy Design at the Politecnico di Milano. His planning approach is grounded in the concept of the Right to the City, influenced by Lefebvre, and the principle of public interest. His research focuses on Urban Morphology, Urban Resilience, Sustainability, Pedestrian Mobility, Urban Design, and Liveability. He basically adopts the Conzenien approach and Space Syntax in urban morphology. He actively used these approaches during his visit to Spain as part of his Politecnico di Milano education, in his studies on the historical urban fabric of Santiago de Compostela and the modern neighbourhoods surrounding it. 

His academic contributions, include papers presented at the AESOP 2025 Congress titled ‘Suburbanisation Process in Türkiye: Towards Antifragile Planning’ and at the TNUM 2025 symposium titled ‘Examining Urban Resilience Capacity from an Urban Morphology Perspective’. Furthermore, his articles examining walkability capacity and the role of public green spaces as a daily life infrastructure in the peripheral areas of Milano have been published in international journals. He has gained practical experience by working on sustainable spatial organisation in tourism areas in Lisbon, Peniche and Mersin, Kızkalesi as part of the international SPOT project funded by the EU.  

Deniz’s current research focuses on re-thinking walkability in historic city centres and the need for a paradigm shift in urban planning for cities surrounded by ‘internal and external pressures’. 

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