Mahbubur Meenar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahbubur Meenar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahbubur |
| FAMILY NAME | Meenar |
| SIGNATURE | MEENAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0869-3249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unequal burdens: Air quality, built environments, and asthma prevalence in the Greater Philadelphia Metroplex
Air quality disparities disproportionately affect low-income and historically marginalised communities and remain a key environmental justice concern in urban communities. Prior studies have linked neighbourhood land use, transportation infrastructure, and redlining legacies to unequal exposure to pollution and respiratory outcomes. Yet few integrate both historical and contemporary urban factors to explain current asthma disparities. This study …
Mapping the emotional landscapes of parks in post-industrial communities enduring environmental injustices: Potential implications for biophilic city planning
Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion: Insights from vehicle electrification initiatives in New Jersey (USA)
Public perceptions of local food environments in shrinking cities: Weighing solutions to community food insecurity in Camden, New Jersey
Historically, the shrinking city of Camden, New Jersey has experienced a wide range of issues related to social, environmental, and nutritional injustice. This study focuses on two of the city’s most at-risk neighborhoods, Waterfront South and Bergen Square, and examines residents’ perceptions of their local food environments, food insecurity, and proposed solutions, including a potential online grocery delivery service. Many participants across …
Urban planners’ roles, perceptions, needs, and concerns in smart city planning: A survey of U.S. planners
In this article, we present insights from planners on their concepts of smart cities and their roles, perceptions, needs, and concerns related to the initiation and/or implementation of smart city projects. Our analysis is based on a survey of professional planners (n = 1,417) throughout the United States to study the tools, efforts, and concerns related to smart city planning. We also explore the role of smart city strategies and technologies in…
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process
We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/…
Staging hydrophilic encounters - experiential methods for creating dialogic listening space
This article explores hydrophilia, humans' affective ties with water, through the development of a public storytelling methodology for exploring fluvial senses of place and expanding the fluvial imagination through the art of listening. This 'watershed storytelling' methodology was developed at the confluence of public cultural geographies, the environmental humanities, and oral history in response to calls for greater aesthetic engagement with f…
The Pinelands Development Credit Program
The “Pine Barrens” are a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve encompassing about 1.1 million acres in southern New Jersey. A state agency, the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, in conjunction with county and local governments, works to implement land management and environmental protection goals via a comprehensive management plan. The pinelands development credit (PDC) program is one tool aimed specifically at land preservation outcomes. The PDC p…
Green Enough Ain’t Good Enough: ” Public Perceptions and Emotions Related to Green Infrastructure in Environmental Justice Communities
The concept of biophilic urban planning has inspired neighborhood greening projects in many older urban communities in the USA and beyond. The strengths (e.g., environmental management, biodiversity, heat island mitigation) and challenges (e.g., greenwashing, green gentrification) of such projects are well-documented. Additional research on the relationship between these projects and various social factors (e.g., public perceptions, feelings, and…
Citizen engagement on local government Facebook pages: Experience from Aotearoa New Zealand
Residential Greenspace and Urban Adolescent Substance Use: Exploring Interactive Effects with Peer Network Health, Sex, and Executive Function
While urban greenspace is increasingly recognized as important to mental health, its role in substance use is understudied. This exploratory study investigates the interaction of greenspace with peer network health, sex, and executive function (EF) in models of substance use among a sample of disadvantaged, urban youth. Adolescents and their parents were recruited from a hospital in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Residential greenspace at th…
Using photovoice and emotional maps to understand transitional urban neighborhoods
Using Multi-Sensory and Multi-Dimensional Immersive Virtual Reality in Participatory Planning
In the last two decades, urban planners have embraced digital technologies to complement traditional public participation processes; research on the impact of smarter digital instruments, such as immersive virtual reality (IVR), however, is scant. We recruited 40 focus group participants to explore various formats of spatial planning scenario simulations in Glassboro, NJ, USA. Our study finds that the level of participation, memory recalls of sce…
Analyzing Lynch’s City Imageability in the Digital Age
This paper explores the role of virtual mapping environments in analyzing people’s perception of spaces and their implications in planning. We examine how people interpret Kevin Lynch’s “city imageability” in the digital age by asking two questions: (1) how can we create mental images of city elements by using virtual versus physical environments? (2) What are the strengths and weaknesses of each method? We studied sixty-eight mental maps—created…
Just Sustainability in the Global South: A Case Study of the Megacity of Dhaka
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, accommodates 18 million people and is one of the largest megacities in the world. A large share of its population is poor and lives in informal settlements which can be called slums. In addition to precarious and unhealthy living conditions, these slum dwellers lack formal land tenure rights and therefore are subject to government-supported evictions. Slum evictions due to various urban development pressures…
Using participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index
This paper discusses the development of a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index (PFIVI), which incorporates six indicators and 30 variables. It also presents an application of this Index within the context of Philadelphia, a postindustrial U.S. city. The paper argues that in order to thoroughly measure a multidimensional socioeconomic problem that is tied to the built environment (e.g., food insecurity and vulnerability), the use of…
E-Participation: Comparing Trends in Practice and the Classroom
This article reports an assessment of the growing use of Internet-based public participation methods, e-participation, in planning practice and university-level planning education in the USA. After documenting results from case study reviews of practice and a web-based survey of planning faculty, a comparative analysis reveals that academic programs are incorporating a range of e-participation tools; however, there is a need to increase curricula…
Using photovoice and emotional maps to understand transitional urban neighborhoods
Citizen engagement on local government Facebook pages: Experience from Aotearoa New Zealand
Using participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index
This paper discusses the development of a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index (PFIVI), which incorporates six indicators and 30 variables. It also presents an application of this Index within the context of Philadelphia, a postindustrial U.S. city. The paper argues that in order to thoroughly measure a multidimensional socioeconomic problem that is tied to the built environment (e.g., food insecurity and vulnerability), the use of…
Staging hydrophilic encounters - experiential methods for creating dialogic listening space
This article explores hydrophilia, humans' affective ties with water, through the development of a public storytelling methodology for exploring fluvial senses of place and expanding the fluvial imagination through the art of listening. This 'watershed storytelling' methodology was developed at the confluence of public cultural geographies, the environmental humanities, and oral history in response to calls for greater aesthetic engagement with f…
Just Sustainability in the Global South: A Case Study of the Megacity of Dhaka
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, accommodates 18 million people and is one of the largest megacities in the world. A large share of its population is poor and lives in informal settlements which can be called slums. In addition to precarious and unhealthy living conditions, these slum dwellers lack formal land tenure rights and therefore are subject to government-supported evictions. Slum evictions due to various urban development pressures…
Mapping the emotional landscapes of parks in post-industrial communities enduring environmental injustices: Potential implications for biophilic city planning
Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion: Insights from vehicle electrification initiatives in New Jersey (USA)
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process
We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/…
Using Multi-Sensory and Multi-Dimensional Immersive Virtual Reality in Participatory Planning
In the last two decades, urban planners have embraced digital technologies to complement traditional public participation processes; research on the impact of smarter digital instruments, such as immersive virtual reality (IVR), however, is scant. We recruited 40 focus group participants to explore various formats of spatial planning scenario simulations in Glassboro, NJ, USA. Our study finds that the level of participation, memory recalls of sce…
Analyzing Lynch’s City Imageability in the Digital Age
This paper explores the role of virtual mapping environments in analyzing people’s perception of spaces and their implications in planning. We examine how people interpret Kevin Lynch’s “city imageability” in the digital age by asking two questions: (1) how can we create mental images of city elements by using virtual versus physical environments? (2) What are the strengths and weaknesses of each method? We studied sixty-eight mental maps—created…
E-Participation: Comparing Trends in Practice and the Classroom
This article reports an assessment of the growing use of Internet-based public participation methods, e-participation, in planning practice and university-level planning education in the USA. After documenting results from case study reviews of practice and a web-based survey of planning faculty, a comparative analysis reveals that academic programs are incorporating a range of e-participation tools; however, there is a need to increase curricula…
Using participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index
This paper discusses the development of a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index (PFIVI), which incorporates six indicators and 30 variables. It also presents an application of this Index within the context of Philadelphia, a postindustrial U.S. city. The paper argues that in order to thoroughly measure a multidimensional socioeconomic problem that is tied to the built environment (e.g., food insecurity and vulnerability), the use of…
Just Sustainability in the Global South: A Case Study of the Megacity of Dhaka
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, accommodates 18 million people and is one of the largest megacities in the world. A large share of its population is poor and lives in informal settlements which can be called slums. In addition to precarious and unhealthy living conditions, these slum dwellers lack formal land tenure rights and therefore are subject to government-supported evictions. Slum evictions due to various urban development pressures…
Analyzing Lynch’s City Imageability in the Digital Age
This paper explores the role of virtual mapping environments in analyzing people’s perception of spaces and their implications in planning. We examine how people interpret Kevin Lynch’s “city imageability” in the digital age by asking two questions: (1) how can we create mental images of city elements by using virtual versus physical environments? (2) What are the strengths and weaknesses of each method? We studied sixty-eight mental maps—created…
Using Multi-Sensory and Multi-Dimensional Immersive Virtual Reality in Participatory Planning
In the last two decades, urban planners have embraced digital technologies to complement traditional public participation processes; research on the impact of smarter digital instruments, such as immersive virtual reality (IVR), however, is scant. We recruited 40 focus group participants to explore various formats of spatial planning scenario simulations in Glassboro, NJ, USA. Our study finds that the level of participation, memory recalls of sce…
Residential Greenspace and Urban Adolescent Substance Use: Exploring Interactive Effects with Peer Network Health, Sex, and Executive Function
While urban greenspace is increasingly recognized as important to mental health, its role in substance use is understudied. This exploratory study investigates the interaction of greenspace with peer network health, sex, and executive function (EF) in models of substance use among a sample of disadvantaged, urban youth. Adolescents and their parents were recruited from a hospital in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Residential greenspace at th…
Using photovoice and emotional maps to understand transitional urban neighborhoods
The Pinelands Development Credit Program
The “Pine Barrens” are a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve encompassing about 1.1 million acres in southern New Jersey. A state agency, the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, in conjunction with county and local governments, works to implement land management and environmental protection goals via a comprehensive management plan. The pinelands development credit (PDC) program is one tool aimed specifically at land preservation outcomes. The PDC p…
Green Enough Ain’t Good Enough: ” Public Perceptions and Emotions Related to Green Infrastructure in Environmental Justice Communities
The concept of biophilic urban planning has inspired neighborhood greening projects in many older urban communities in the USA and beyond. The strengths (e.g., environmental management, biodiversity, heat island mitigation) and challenges (e.g., greenwashing, green gentrification) of such projects are well-documented. Additional research on the relationship between these projects and various social factors (e.g., public perceptions, feelings, and…
Citizen engagement on local government Facebook pages: Experience from Aotearoa New Zealand
Public perceptions of local food environments in shrinking cities: Weighing solutions to community food insecurity in Camden, New Jersey
Historically, the shrinking city of Camden, New Jersey has experienced a wide range of issues related to social, environmental, and nutritional injustice. This study focuses on two of the city’s most at-risk neighborhoods, Waterfront South and Bergen Square, and examines residents’ perceptions of their local food environments, food insecurity, and proposed solutions, including a potential online grocery delivery service. Many participants across …
Urban planners’ roles, perceptions, needs, and concerns in smart city planning: A survey of U.S. planners
In this article, we present insights from planners on their concepts of smart cities and their roles, perceptions, needs, and concerns related to the initiation and/or implementation of smart city projects. Our analysis is based on a survey of professional planners (n = 1,417) throughout the United States to study the tools, efforts, and concerns related to smart city planning. We also explore the role of smart city strategies and technologies in…
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process
We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/…
Staging hydrophilic encounters - experiential methods for creating dialogic listening space
This article explores hydrophilia, humans' affective ties with water, through the development of a public storytelling methodology for exploring fluvial senses of place and expanding the fluvial imagination through the art of listening. This 'watershed storytelling' methodology was developed at the confluence of public cultural geographies, the environmental humanities, and oral history in response to calls for greater aesthetic engagement with f…
Mapping the emotional landscapes of parks in post-industrial communities enduring environmental injustices: Potential implications for biophilic city planning
Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion: Insights from vehicle electrification initiatives in New Jersey (USA)
Unequal burdens: Air quality, built environments, and asthma prevalence in the Greater Philadelphia Metroplex
Air quality disparities disproportionately affect low-income and historically marginalised communities and remain a key environmental justice concern in urban communities. Prior studies have linked neighbourhood land use, transportation infrastructure, and redlining legacies to unequal exposure to pollution and respiratory outcomes. Yet few integrate both historical and contemporary urban factors to explain current asthma disparities. This study …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works)