Didem YERLI

Researcher and Instructor at Department of Architecture, Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology. Delft, The Netherlands.

Didem Yerli is an urban historian and sociologist. Currently she is a Ph.D. researcher at Leiden University, and working as a instructor at Delft University of Technology. Since 2021, she is in the coordination team of Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) research program, PortCityFutures. Her research interests focus on the spatial and social transformation of the port cities and urbanization since the nineteenth century. Her latest article ”What kind of ‘Cosmopolitics’? Studying the Eastern Mediterranean port cities between East and West” deals with cosmopolitanism, urbanism and collective identity at the coastal cities. Taking coastal urban cities as case studies, she engages with identity, space, collective memory and cultural heritage.