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Associate Professor

Dr. Melinda Benkő

PhD, habil

H-1111 Budapest, Műegyetem rkp. 3. BME Department of Urban Planning and Design,

+3614631319

benko.melinda@epk.bme.hu

Groups

Faculty

Faculty of Architecture

Department

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Research keywords: · mass housing · urban design · urbanism · urban renewal · urban development · Budapest · space theory · sustainable housing neighborhood
Horizon Europe keywords: · Circular economy · Cities and communities · Climate change mitigation and adaptation · Green social innovations · Protection and promotion of cultural heritage · Inclusive society · European Green Deal

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-benk%C5%91-5262183a/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melinda-Benko

https://urb.bme.hu/tanszek/munkatarsak/benko-melinda/

Publications Awards Projects Conferences Other activities

Publications

Benkő, M., Bene, B.; Pirity, Á.; Szabó, Á. & Egedy, T. (2021). Real vs. Virtual City: Planning Issues in a Discontinuous Urban Area in Budapest’s Inner City. Urban Planning, 6(4). (pp. 150-163).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i4.4446
Benkő, M. (2018). The Effects of Security-based Contemporary Urban Development on European Modern Mass Housing Landscape. Metamorphosis: The Continuity of Change. 15th International DOCOMOMO Conference, 28-31.08.2018 (pp. 181-185), Ljubljana. ISBN 978-989-99645-3-2
Benkő, M. (2016). Budapest’s Large Prefab Housing Estates: Urban Values of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Journal of Hungarian Studies, 29(1-2), (pp. 21-36). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2015.29.1-2.2
Benkő, M. & Kissfazekas, K. (Eds.) (2019). Understanding Post-Socialist European Cities: case studies in urban planning and design. Budapest: L’Harmattan 224p ISBN: 9782343161822
Benkő, M., & Fonyódi, M. (2009). Glocal city - kortárs európai városépítészet.[Glocal city – contemporary urban design.] Budapest: Terc Kiadó. 240p ISBN: 9789639535480

Awards

Fulbright Research Award for 4 months in academic year 2019-20, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Policy and Public Affairs (CUPPA), the University of Illinois at Chicago
János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Science 2013-16 and 2009-12
French State Fellowship / Ecole d'Architecture de Grenoble, France Juin 2013
BME students' awards for teaching
Design Professor of the Year 2004 and 2011 / students’ award of the BME Faculty of Architecture
Lecturer Professor of the Year 2011 and 2016

Projects

COST Middle-Class Mass Housing 2019-23
COST Crime Prevention through Urban Design and Planning 2013-18
Danurb Interreg 2017-19
Urbact Re_Block 2013-15

Conferences

http://doconf.architect.bme.hu/ Budapest, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, Chair
EAUH, ISUF, Docomomo, etc.

Other activities

MTA, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the Committee on Architecture 2011 onwards
non-academician member of the MTA General Assembly, 2022-25
Head of the Standing Committee on Urban Planning and Design, 2021 onwards
DOCOMOMO / International Specialist Committee / Urbanism+Landscape, 2015 onwards