Ali Madanipour
Biographic Data
| ID | 3814934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Madanipour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Madanipour |
| SIGNATURE | MADANIPOUR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9083-146X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rethinking Public Space
Taking a critical perspective, this book rethinks public space in the context of contemporary global health and economic crises, as well as technological, political and cultural change. In order to do so, Ali Madanipour brings together two often unrelated discourses: public space and social inclusion, interrogating the potential for public spaces to contribute to inclusive social practices.
Place-based development and spatial justice
Within EU cohesion policy, a place-based approach is expected to promote a strategic shift towards more place-sensitive, cross-sectoral and socially inclusive development. These expectations are underlined in the new Territorial Agenda 2030, which highlights that a place-based approach is key to territorial cohesion and to overall efforts towards a just Europe. Drawing on findings from the Horizon 2020 project RELOCAL – Resituating the local in c…
The concept of spatial justice and the European Union’s territorial cohesion
Regional disparities and inequalities have been a key concern in the EU. This paper develops a concept of spatial justice to examine the European Union policy of territorial cohesion and its reforms. It identifies three key dimensions of spatial justice that distinguish it from social justice: spatiality, which draws attention to spatial aspects of justice; integration of distributive and procedural justice, which goes beyond this controversial d…
Leader and Spatial Justice
Recent papers have argued that spatial justice should be pursued through a place-based approach, which enables local people to assert their own capacity to act and to pursue their own positive visions: an approach fundamental to LEADER. This paper considers the extent to which LEADER constitutes local action addressing spatial justice through a case study in England. Analysis of this case leads to questions about the extent to which apparent loca…
Giovanni Picker 2017: Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe . Abingdon: Routledge—Advances in Sociology Series
Temporary use of space: Urban processes between flexibility, opportunity and precarity
The temporary use of privately-owned, empty space has been advocated by some as economically sensible and socially progressive, making use of unproductive and empty spaces by providing access to space for those who are otherwise unable to obtain it. The article critically examines this concept, arguing that the temporary use of space should be analysed as part of the urban development process with its temporal and spatial fluctuations and its mul…
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux
Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity
In this Chapter, the authors outline their own approach to the analysis of institutional capacity and institutional capacity building processes in urban governance, within a broadly 'constructivist' institutionalist frame of reference. They argue that creating the capacity for collective action in a dynamic, dispersed power context is a challenging enterprise. Socio-cultural changes have co-evolved with these economic developments, diversifying l…
Departmental Structure, Cooperative Scholarship, and Productivity: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative-Comparative Analysis of Selected Sociology Departments
Previous studies of scholarly productivity have neglected the impact of departmental and institutional structure on the outcome. This study examines the relationships between departmental and institutional structure, cooperative scholarship, and individualistic scholarship with productivity in 31 highly ranked sociology departments in the United States. We measure scholarly productivity by the number of peer reviewed articles that were published …
Ephemeral landscape and urban shrinkage
The paper investigates the phenomenon of short-lived landscapes in European cities, analysing the causes and contexts of their emergence, exploring their links with urban shrinkage, and examining their roles in urban transformation. Five cases from Liverpool, Glasgow, London, Paris, and Brussels are studied in two groups of garden festivals and temporary parks, covering a range of scales, periods, locations, and agents of development. Economic, p…
Urban Design and Public Space
Reconsidering Localism
Cultural Scripts, Reasons for Having Sex, and Regret: A Study of Iranian Male and Female University Students
Global System Theory and ‘Market-friendly’ Religion
This article explores some implications of the interplay of neoliberal economic policy and religion for Leslie Sklair's global system theory (GST), and some implications of Sklair's theory for the study of contemporary religion. We first suggest that Sklair needlessly restricted his theory's scope by analyzing culture in terms of consumerist ideologies without systematic consideration of religious doctrines and practices. Second, based on studies…
Universités et enjeux territoriaux: Une comparaison internationale de l'économie de la connaissance
Appelées de plus en plus à participer à des projets de développement basés sur la connaissance, les universités subissent de fortes pressions, pour se réorganiser autour de pôles d'innovation, s'ouvrant davantage vers l'extérieur et favorisant les interactions avec le territoire. Les universités, il est vrai, ont déjà fait l'objet d'études, de réflexions ou de critiques, par le passé. De nouveaux enjeux les ont remis à l'ordre du jour, un peu par…
Two Charters of Athens and Two Visions of Utopia: Functional and Connected
Sustainable Development, Urban Form, and Megacity Governance and Planning in Tehran
Connectivity and contingency in planning
The article argues that a defining feature of planning is its efforts at making, formalizing and expanding connections between events, functions and institutions. In the context of contingency, diversity and uncertainty that characterizes complex urban societies, spatial planning is an instrumental formal process that seeks to shape and manage the future of spatial conditions and relations. The planning process involves setting up a series of tem…
Roles and Challenges of Urban Design
This paper provides an analysis of the rising significance of urban design and the challenges it is facing. It places urban design in the wider context of the urban development process, and of the growing importance of cities in the global economy. By adopting a dynamic and multi-dimensional perspective, the paper looks at this process from the viewpoints of producers, regulators and users of the built environment. Urban design is found to make m…
Urban planning and development in Tehran
Crime and the city: Domestic burglary and the built environment in Tehran
Public and Private Spaces of the City
The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance. Through theoretical and historical examination, it explores how and why the space of human socities is subdivided into public and private sections. It starts with the private, interior space of the mind and moves s…
Why are the Design and Development of Public Spaces Significant for Cities?
Much of the recent interest in urban design has focused on the creation and management of public spaces of cities. My aim in this paper is to explore the nature and role of public space and its significance for cities today. I look at how the promotion of public space is, on the one hand, a concern for social and functional integration in response to social and spatial segregation of cities and the privatization of public space and, on the other …
City profile: Tehran
Temporary use of space: Urban processes between flexibility, opportunity and precarity
The temporary use of privately-owned, empty space has been advocated by some as economically sensible and socially progressive, making use of unproductive and empty spaces by providing access to space for those who are otherwise unable to obtain it. The article critically examines this concept, arguing that the temporary use of space should be analysed as part of the urban development process with its temporal and spatial fluctuations and its mul…
Urban planning and development in Tehran
Urban Design and Dilemmas of Space
My aim in this paper is to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. Social scientists, geographers, architects, urban planners, and designers use the term space in their academic and professional involvement with the city. But when they meet each other their discourse seems to be handicapped partly because of a difference in their usage a…
City profile: Tehran
Leader and Spatial Justice
Recent papers have argued that spatial justice should be pursued through a place-based approach, which enables local people to assert their own capacity to act and to pursue their own positive visions: an approach fundamental to LEADER. This paper considers the extent to which LEADER constitutes local action addressing spatial justice through a case study in England. Analysis of this case leads to questions about the extent to which apparent loca…
Crime and the city: Domestic burglary and the built environment in Tehran
Connectivity and contingency in planning
The article argues that a defining feature of planning is its efforts at making, formalizing and expanding connections between events, functions and institutions. In the context of contingency, diversity and uncertainty that characterizes complex urban societies, spatial planning is an instrumental formal process that seeks to shape and manage the future of spatial conditions and relations. The planning process involves setting up a series of tem…
Ephemeral landscape and urban shrinkage
The paper investigates the phenomenon of short-lived landscapes in European cities, analysing the causes and contexts of their emergence, exploring their links with urban shrinkage, and examining their roles in urban transformation. Five cases from Liverpool, Glasgow, London, Paris, and Brussels are studied in two groups of garden festivals and temporary parks, covering a range of scales, periods, locations, and agents of development. Economic, p…
Cultural Scripts, Reasons for Having Sex, and Regret: A Study of Iranian Male and Female University Students
Global System Theory and ‘Market-friendly’ Religion
This article explores some implications of the interplay of neoliberal economic policy and religion for Leslie Sklair's global system theory (GST), and some implications of Sklair's theory for the study of contemporary religion. We first suggest that Sklair needlessly restricted his theory's scope by analyzing culture in terms of consumerist ideologies without systematic consideration of religious doctrines and practices. Second, based on studies…
Two Charters of Athens and Two Visions of Utopia: Functional and Connected
Urban Design and Dilemmas of Space
My aim in this paper is to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. Social scientists, geographers, architects, urban planners, and designers use the term space in their academic and professional involvement with the city. But when they meet each other their discourse seems to be handicapped partly because of a difference in their usage a…
Ambiguities of urban design
This paper analyses those aspects of urban design which have caused ambiguity among academics and professionals and looks for a definition that addresses these uncertainties. The areas of confusion and ambiguity, are analysed in seven arenas: the scale of urban fabric which urban design addresses; visual or spatial emphases; spatial or social emphases; the relationship between process and product in city design; the relationship between different…
Managing Cities: The New Urban Context
Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences and Responses (Regional Development Andpublic Policy Series)
Why are the Design and Development of Public Spaces Significant for Cities?
Much of the recent interest in urban design has focused on the creation and management of public spaces of cities. My aim in this paper is to explore the nature and role of public space and its significance for cities today. I look at how the promotion of public space is, on the one hand, a concern for social and functional integration in response to social and spatial segregation of cities and the privatization of public space and, on the other …
City profile: Tehran
Public and Private Spaces of the City
The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance. Through theoretical and historical examination, it explores how and why the space of human socities is subdivided into public and private sections. It starts with the private, interior space of the mind and moves s…
Roles and Challenges of Urban Design
This paper provides an analysis of the rising significance of urban design and the challenges it is facing. It places urban design in the wider context of the urban development process, and of the growing importance of cities in the global economy. By adopting a dynamic and multi-dimensional perspective, the paper looks at this process from the viewpoints of producers, regulators and users of the built environment. Urban design is found to make m…
Urban planning and development in Tehran
Crime and the city: Domestic burglary and the built environment in Tehran
Connectivity and contingency in planning
The article argues that a defining feature of planning is its efforts at making, formalizing and expanding connections between events, functions and institutions. In the context of contingency, diversity and uncertainty that characterizes complex urban societies, spatial planning is an instrumental formal process that seeks to shape and manage the future of spatial conditions and relations. The planning process involves setting up a series of tem…
Sustainable Development, Urban Form, and Megacity Governance and Planning in Tehran
Universités et enjeux territoriaux: Une comparaison internationale de l'économie de la connaissance
Appelées de plus en plus à participer à des projets de développement basés sur la connaissance, les universités subissent de fortes pressions, pour se réorganiser autour de pôles d'innovation, s'ouvrant davantage vers l'extérieur et favorisant les interactions avec le territoire. Les universités, il est vrai, ont déjà fait l'objet d'études, de réflexions ou de critiques, par le passé. De nouveaux enjeux les ont remis à l'ordre du jour, un peu par…
Two Charters of Athens and Two Visions of Utopia: Functional and Connected
Global System Theory and ‘Market-friendly’ Religion
This article explores some implications of the interplay of neoliberal economic policy and religion for Leslie Sklair's global system theory (GST), and some implications of Sklair's theory for the study of contemporary religion. We first suggest that Sklair needlessly restricted his theory's scope by analyzing culture in terms of consumerist ideologies without systematic consideration of religious doctrines and practices. Second, based on studies…
Urban Design and Public Space
Reconsidering Localism
Cultural Scripts, Reasons for Having Sex, and Regret: A Study of Iranian Male and Female University Students
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux
Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity
In this Chapter, the authors outline their own approach to the analysis of institutional capacity and institutional capacity building processes in urban governance, within a broadly 'constructivist' institutionalist frame of reference. They argue that creating the capacity for collective action in a dynamic, dispersed power context is a challenging enterprise. Socio-cultural changes have co-evolved with these economic developments, diversifying l…
Departmental Structure, Cooperative Scholarship, and Productivity: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative-Comparative Analysis of Selected Sociology Departments
Previous studies of scholarly productivity have neglected the impact of departmental and institutional structure on the outcome. This study examines the relationships between departmental and institutional structure, cooperative scholarship, and individualistic scholarship with productivity in 31 highly ranked sociology departments in the United States. We measure scholarly productivity by the number of peer reviewed articles that were published …
Ephemeral landscape and urban shrinkage
The paper investigates the phenomenon of short-lived landscapes in European cities, analysing the causes and contexts of their emergence, exploring their links with urban shrinkage, and examining their roles in urban transformation. Five cases from Liverpool, Glasgow, London, Paris, and Brussels are studied in two groups of garden festivals and temporary parks, covering a range of scales, periods, locations, and agents of development. Economic, p…
Temporary use of space: Urban processes between flexibility, opportunity and precarity
The temporary use of privately-owned, empty space has been advocated by some as economically sensible and socially progressive, making use of unproductive and empty spaces by providing access to space for those who are otherwise unable to obtain it. The article critically examines this concept, arguing that the temporary use of space should be analysed as part of the urban development process with its temporal and spatial fluctuations and its mul…
Giovanni Picker 2017: Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe . Abingdon: Routledge—Advances in Sociology Series
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