A Cheshmehzangi
Biographic Data
| ID | 38689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Cheshmehzangi |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheshmehzangi |
| SIGNATURE | CHESHMEHZANGI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham Ningbo China |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2657-4865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond birth rates
Global birth rates have been in steady decline and are projected to continue this trajectory in the coming decades. While existing literature provides important insights into the demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of this trend, there remains a critical gap in theoretical frameworks that engage with the broader implications of declining fertility. Current family planning programs often concentrate on pregnancy and postnatal care but tend to…
Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Regeneration
Urban regeneration is increasingly expected to integrate environmental resilience, social equity, and cultural heritage alongside economic objectives. This narrative review examines how nature-based solutions (NbS) can be embedded within regeneration strategies through ecological landscape planning and design. A structured search of peer-reviewed literature and policy reports identified 34 academic studies and 13 reports that were coded and synth…
Climate Change Messaging and Mental Health
Climate change is an existential threat, and it is often difficult to translate the urgency and immediacy of climate catastrophes into common parlance. One way to effectively engage the public in climate change conversations is through effective communication practices, such as persuasive communication. Persuasive communication uses tailored messages to elicit desirable behavioural outcomes in the audience and has great potential to promote posit…
Co-benefits and trade-offs of urban resilience for sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Despite extensive research on urban resilience, a gap remains in understanding the co-benefits and trade-offs between resilience-building efforts and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This systematic review aims to address this gap by analyzing the literature to identify how urban resilience initiatives can contribute to and/or detract from achieving SDGs. Results show that urban resilience and SDGs are closely linked, with advancements i…
Examining Sponge City coverage and perceptions in global news media
Many countries are developing sustainable urban water management approaches to tackle the increasing risks of rainstorms due to climate change. As such, in China the Sponge City Program (SCP) was adopted in 2013. To ensure successful adoption, the SCP should incorporate social indicators, such as public perception and uptake. News media is a key channel to relay information to the public, yet the role and influence of media outlets in portraying …
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Cool walkable and cyclable community planning for heat-resilient transportation system
Climate-driven transformations
Climate change inequalities
Contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to summertime thermal environments across different urban scales
Years of Urban Change in China’s 10 Core Cities
Where should “Humans” be in “One Health”? Lessons from Covid-19 for One Health
The culling of animals that are infected, or suspected to be infected, with COVID-19 has fuelled outcry. What might have contributed to the ongoing debates and discussions about animal rights protection amid global health crises is the lack of a unified understanding and internationally agreed-upon definition of “One Health”. The term One Health is often utilised to describe the imperative to protect the health of humans, animals, and plants, alo…
Growing Digital Divide for Expatriates Population in China
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced many movements of rapid digitization in several sectors/areas used by the public. The three primary sectors/areas affected by such digitization process are identified as healthcare, transportation, and public domain registration. There are only a few studies investigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital divide for the expatriate population. To fill this research gap, this study investigates…
Sustainable Construction
The climatic and environmental impact of construction works is well recognized, and in particular, the energy use and carbon emissions associated with both their production (embodied energy/carbon) and their lifetime operation (operational energy/carbon). However, the impact of site works, infrastructures, and landscaping has yet to be explored; most of the focus has been on the buildings rather than what is around and underneath them. Yet, these…
Transformations in urban gardens
LiFE in the city
This paper explores the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative, a pioneering approach initiated by India to propel sustainable urban development through targeted behavioural change. Positioned at the nexus of individual action and urban sustainability, LiFE underscores the potential of integrating lifestyle adjustments into the broader urban planning and policy-making framework. By examining the initiative's evolution from a grassroots movem…
Climate and Social Justice
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine
War could be traumatic. War trauma could often lead to severe and sustained health consequences on people’s physical and psychological health. War trauma is often prevalent in people who either participated in the war or lived near conflict zones, such as military professionals, refugees, and health workers. Advances in information and communication technologies, such as the speed, scale, and scope at which people worldwide could be exposed to th…
Crafting and Transforming Colonial Empires and Landscapes
The growing digital divide in education among primary and secondary children during the Covid-19 pandemic
The growing digital divide issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic are critical to widening disparities and inequalities. Yet, only a few studies have explored the impacts of the digital divide on the education sector. In particular, there is a research gap related to younger students of primary and secondary schools. This study addresses this research gap by providing an overview of the digital divide’s impacts on social exclusion and education equa…
Quantifying the impacts of posture changes on office worker productivity
This study revealed that posture changes could have an immediate improvement in productivity
ICT applications and the Covid-19 pandemic
A prominent move amid the COVID-19 pandemic is related to the wide use of ICT applications for various reasons. Such services are context-specific and sector-specific, but we see transformative directions leading to digital data collection, monitory, and management platforms. For now, these have been beneficial to evaluate trends and issues related to the pandemic. Some aggregated data could also help decision-making processes, which are helpful …
A set of 99 healthy city indicators for application in urban planning and design
Despite much interest in healthy, sustainable cities, currently they are often on the margins of urban planning and design, not the centre. Part of the reason for this is technical. Many planners are interested in designing healthier cities but wonder how to link their objectives with actions. This study develops 99 indicators for a healthy city. The basis for the development of indicators was the 11 objectives of a healthy city according to the …
Structural succession of land resources under the influence of different policies
Discourse on Covid-19 Mass Testing vs. Rapid Testing Processing
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 10 May 2022Sec. Infectious Diseases – Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.883490
Urban Identity as a Global Phenomenon
Major sociospatial transformation processes are taking place, and so concepts such as tradition, distinctiveness, and identity have become fundamental but delicate factors in the context of the social environment. Consequently, identity has become not only a term, but rather a comprehensive theme and concept, in making new places and built environments. In this context of argument, this article elucidates the implication of identity at different …
The making and remaking of ecological space in China
Disappearing reeds on Chongming Island
This paper critically examines current ecological development planning and practice in China through an environmental microhistory approach. By tracing the gradual disappearance of an indigenous plant - the common reed ( Phragmites australis) - on Chongming Island in Shanghai, which is known for the grand Eco-Islands development plan, this paper reveals the paradox of ecological destruction through eco-development in China. Based on data collecte…
Contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to summertime thermal environments across different urban scales
Structural succession of land resources under the influence of different policies
The role of international actors in low-carbon transitions of Shenzhen's International Low Carbon City in China
Identity of Cities and City of Identities
A set of 99 healthy city indicators for application in urban planning and design
Despite much interest in healthy, sustainable cities, currently they are often on the margins of urban planning and design, not the centre. Part of the reason for this is technical. Many planners are interested in designing healthier cities but wonder how to link their objectives with actions. This study develops 99 indicators for a healthy city. The basis for the development of indicators was the 11 objectives of a healthy city according to the …
Neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Rapid urbanization, environmental concerns and demand for sustainable cities contributed to the development of Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs) such as LEED-ND and BREEAM-Communities. Whilst their success in increasing sustainability outcomes within the built environment is evident, there are unnoticed gaps in NSAT frameworks that might hinder their future suitability for sustainable urban planning and design. Therefore, to r…
Vulnerability of the UK’s Bame communities during Covid-19
This study provides a detailed analysis of the main reasons why BAME communities are impacted more by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on matters of public health inequalities, socioeconomic inequalities, and disproportionate poverty in the UK. In doing so, the study analyzes the up-to-date conditions of COVID-19 in the UK against the available governmental data on BAME communities, based on three key areas of occupational risks, househol…
Adaptive Measures for Public Places to face the Covid 19 Pandemic Outbreak
The Reinvention of Liveability in Public Places
The reinvention of liveability in public places and its integration with social, environmental, cultural, and economic factors of living can be analyzed in detail in urban studies. This is studied in particular here through evaluation of different factors of quality of life and well-being in urban environments, one of which is the convention for encouraging social experience based on the socioeconomic and socioenvironmental values of the public p…
Spatial Syntagma and Identity of a Place
Place is a complex and multi-dimensional system capable of embracing different uses, interpretations, and even various definitions. As a notion, place is composed of a series of narratives, characteristics, relations, and socio-spatial values that altogether can be regarded as the spatial syntagma of a place. The livelihood of a place is much dependent on its interrelated socio-spatiality, whereby people are not only part of a place but are mutua…
Co-benefits and trade-offs of urban resilience for sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Despite extensive research on urban resilience, a gap remains in understanding the co-benefits and trade-offs between resilience-building efforts and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This systematic review aims to address this gap by analyzing the literature to identify how urban resilience initiatives can contribute to and/or detract from achieving SDGs. Results show that urban resilience and SDGs are closely linked, with advancements i…
Sustainable Construction
The climatic and environmental impact of construction works is well recognized, and in particular, the energy use and carbon emissions associated with both their production (embodied energy/carbon) and their lifetime operation (operational energy/carbon). However, the impact of site works, infrastructures, and landscaping has yet to be explored; most of the focus has been on the buildings rather than what is around and underneath them. Yet, these…
Remaking the Image
It was in 1960 when the concept of imageability was coined by Lynch, who also emphasized the importance of meaning, legibility, and visibility in the physical environment. Similarly, this study will explore the value of a memorable image within the city center's quarters, by analyzing socio-spatial interaction, pedestrian flow, and users' perception. This study will focus on the relationship between two retailing quarters of a city center and wil…
Spatial Syntagma and Identity of a Place
Place is a complex and multi-dimensional system capable of embracing different uses, interpretations, and even various definitions. As a notion, place is composed of a series of narratives, characteristics, relations, and socio-spatial values that altogether can be regarded as the spatial syntagma of a place. The livelihood of a place is much dependent on its interrelated socio-spatiality, whereby people are not only part of a place but are mutua…
The Reinvention of Liveability in Public Places
The reinvention of liveability in public places and its integration with social, environmental, cultural, and economic factors of living can be analyzed in detail in urban studies. This is studied in particular here through evaluation of different factors of quality of life and well-being in urban environments, one of which is the convention for encouraging social experience based on the socioeconomic and socioenvironmental values of the public p…
Urban Identity as a Global Phenomenon
Major sociospatial transformation processes are taking place, and so concepts such as tradition, distinctiveness, and identity have become fundamental but delicate factors in the context of the social environment. Consequently, identity has become not only a term, but rather a comprehensive theme and concept, in making new places and built environments. In this context of argument, this article elucidates the implication of identity at different …
A conceptual re-visualization of the adoption and utilization of the Pillars of Sustainability in the development of Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools
The systematic selection of headline sustainable indicators for the development of future neighbourhood sustainability assessment tools for Africa
The role of international actors in low-carbon transitions of Shenzhen's International Low Carbon City in China
Urban experimentation and institutional arrangements
Currently little is known about how institutional arrangements co-evolve with urban experimentation. This paper mobilizes neo-institutional literature and recent urban experimentation literature as a framework to explore how and why institutional arrangements differ across urban contexts. Empirically the paper focusses on smart city initiatives in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ningbo. These three cities are frontrunners in adopting a comprehensive smart…
Urban Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Development
In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and the notion of (urban) sustainability have become ever more closely intertwined in China and there has been a proliferation of eco-/low-carbon and other similar sustainability-themed urban initiatives that have helped local states to achieve a favorable position in city competitions. Nevertheless, existing studies do not explain why Chinese sustainability projects are planned/implemented with divergent…
The making and remaking of ecological space in China
Identity of Cities and City of Identities
Time to stop the use of ‘Wuhan virus’, ‘China virus’ or ‘Chinese virus’ across the scientific community
box In many areas of the world, phrases such as ‘Wuhan virus’, ‘China virus’ and ‘Chinese virus’ have been frequently used by laypeople, influential politicians and mass media to refer to the virus SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Naming a virus after a geographic location or group of people is not unheard-of, for example, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and the Legionnaires’ disease.2 However, having precedence is not a…
Identity and the City
The City in Need
Innovation through Urban Diversity and Achieving Comprehensive Sustainable Urbanism from a Community-Oriented Approach
In current urban studies focused on pathways of sustainable urbanism, the main discourse is on the development of all-inclusive approaches or comprehensive methods that could encompass multiple factors of sustainability. As a result, a bigger emphasis has been given to other dimensions of “cultural” or “governance” (also known as institutional). In more recent years, more scholarly research studies refer to governance as the fourth pillar of sust…
Housing and health evaluation related to general comfort and indoor thermal comfort satisfaction during the Covid-19 lockdown
Health evaluation of the indoor environment is an important part of the housing study. During the recent COVID-19 lockdown and the increase of longer indoor stays pose a measured threat to general health conditions of residents, especially those that live in more compact and populated living environments. For health-oriented studies that focus on the analysis of indoor environments, many variables should be taken into consideration that could als…
Covid-19 and the small Commonwealth Oceania countries
COVID-19 and the small Commonwealth Oceania countries: promising regional co-ordination." The Round Table, 109(4), pp. 466–467
Covid-19 in the UK
Covid-19 in the UK: is there a correlation between the earlier herd immunity plan and the later low treatment rates?." The Round Table, 109(5), pp. 616–617
Identity of Cities and City of Identities
Adaptive Measures for Public Places to face the Covid 19 Pandemic Outbreak
The promise and perils of Unit 731 data to advance Covid-19 research
box Emerging evidence shows that the COVID-19 is mutating1; as of April 2021, COVID-19 mutations are identified in most of the countries worldwide.2 The scale and scope of these mutations could have a devastating effect on global pandemic control and vaccine development efforts.3 4 Furthering this perspective, the first mutation identified in the UK, the B.1.1.7 variant, is up to 70% more transmissible and 35% more deadly than the original corona…
Mental health consequences of Covid-19 media coverage
During global pandemics, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), crisis communication is indispensable in dispelling fears, uncertainty, and unifying individuals worldwide in a collective fight against health threats. Inadequate crisis communication can bring dire personal and economic consequences. Mounting research shows that seemingly endless newsfeeds related to COVID-19 infection and death rates could considerably increase the risk of m…
Vulnerability of the UK’s Bame communities during Covid-19
This study provides a detailed analysis of the main reasons why BAME communities are impacted more by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on matters of public health inequalities, socioeconomic inequalities, and disproportionate poverty in the UK. In doing so, the study analyzes the up-to-date conditions of COVID-19 in the UK against the available governmental data on BAME communities, based on three key areas of occupational risks, househol…
Discourse on Covid-19 Mass Testing vs. Rapid Testing Processing
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 10 May 2022Sec. Infectious Diseases – Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.883490
General Commentary
Geography (31 works) · Political science (31 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Engineering (17 works) · China (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Pandemic (11 works) · Sustainability (11 works)