Ehsan Dorostkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4416609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ehsan Dorostkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ehsan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorostkar |
| SIGNATURE | DOROSTKAR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tehran |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2090-7059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tokenizing the city
Applying NFTs to urban planning offers revolutionary potential but raises serious equity concerns. Although NFTs are linked to digital art speculation, their underlying technology, decentralized ownership, smart contracts, and tamper-proof records could transform participatory planning, land-use management, and community asset stewardship. This article discusses how NFTs could decentralize planning power by enabling tokenized community land trust…
Beyond solutionism
This Viewpoint article discusses the transformative promise of quantum-secured NFTs in advancing progressive city government, examining their conditional potential as tools of radical redistribution, rather than technical fixes. At the intersection of the cryptographic power of quantum computing and the potential to tokenise collective NFT rights, we propose a framework for decentralised urban commons from housing cooperatives to public space gov…
The digital city and the struggle for urban public spaces
As digital technologies are increasingly integrated into urban infrastructures, the concept of public space is being transformed. The present paper addresses the relationship between the digital city and urban commons and how digitalization reinforces and subverts the public space paradigm in the post-neoliberal city. While digital technologies promise greater efficiency, connectivity, and civic participation, they also exacerbate social inequali…
Beyond smart cities
Contemporary cities increasingly use sensor arrays, Internet of Things infrastructure, and AI-driven dashboards under the guise of ‘smart urbanism.’ However, such measures are fundamentally reactiv
Quantum computing and NFT urbanism
The intersection of quantum computing and NFTs consolidates computational capitalism's hold on urban space, threatening data-colonial entrenchment. Though liberatory hypothetical applications can be envisioned, prevailing technical designs and ownership structures (e.g. Big Tech-dominated quantum cloud services/NFT markets) default towards entrenching spatial hierarchies. This commentary discusses how such technologies could democratize urban spa…
Integrating ancient Chinese feng shui philosophy with smart city technologies
China’s unprecedented urbanization has fueled technological innovation while simultaneously intensifying environmental degradation, cultural erosion, and social inequality. Amid this tension, traditional philosophies such as Feng Shui – long embedded in Chinese spatial planning – remain underutilized in the context of smart city development. This study explores the integration of classical Chinese feng shui philosophy with advanced smart city tec…
Quantum computing-artificial intelligence synergy for adaptive urban morphogenesis
China’s hyper-growth cities face unprecedented uncertainty arising from intertwined economic, social, and environmental stresses that challenge traditional static approaches to urban planning. This article introduces the novel concept of adaptive urban morphogenesis—an evolving and dynamic configuration of urban structure and function—enabled by the synergistic integration of quantum computing (QC) and artificial intelligence (AI). We propose emp…
Using mobile phone data registration to determine urban mobility patterns
Urban forms are central to the operation of cities. However, traditional approaches rarely capture human mobility. In this study, we used mobile phone data from Iran (Tehran/Balad.ir) and China (Shanghai/Gaode Maps) to introduce a demand-driven “urban pattern of need.” Using density-based spatial clustering of applications with Noise (radius of neighborhood, ε = 1 km, minimum number of points, min_samples = 50) and kernel density estimation, we a…
The role of urban planning in shaping resilient futures
This essay critically reflects on the conjunction of city planning and high technology and explores the philosophical, ethical, and practical implications of technological determinism in shaping a sustainable urban future. The essay contends that technology truly has potential to make cities more sustainable and efficient, yet it poses fundamental questions concerning the values carried by technological systems. The article presents a philosophic…
Embedding the metaverse into regional planning for sustainability
The concept of the metaverse, a collective virtual shared space resulting from the convergence of virtually enhanced physical and digital reality, has gained significant traction in recent years. W
The role of metaverse in urban planning
Decentralized smart city transport via quantum computing and NFT spatial governance
Leveraging NFTs for sustainable urban finance
Sustainability and urban climate
Metaverse is a unique space in a virtual world that with many capabilities and features shows us a world in which we can experience life in all its dimensions. The presence of Metaverse in the global arena and the use of the facilities of this technology are effective in improving living conditions in developing cities. In this study, two sample projects that Metaverse can support are presented in India and Ghana. The remarkable thing is its inno…
Comparison and good regional equilibrium with a special look at Iran
An assessment of the role of small towns in the development of periphery population centers using network analysis
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media
How do measure the triangle of human mobility in urban nightlife
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media
How do measure the triangle of human mobility in urban nightlife
The role of metaverse in urban planning
Decentralized smart city transport via quantum computing and NFT spatial governance
Comparison and good regional equilibrium with a special look at Iran
Comparison and good regional equilibrium with a special look at Iran
An assessment of the role of small towns in the development of periphery population centers using network analysis
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media
How do measure the triangle of human mobility in urban nightlife
Sustainability and urban climate
Metaverse is a unique space in a virtual world that with many capabilities and features shows us a world in which we can experience life in all its dimensions. The presence of Metaverse in the global arena and the use of the facilities of this technology are effective in improving living conditions in developing cities. In this study, two sample projects that Metaverse can support are presented in India and Ghana. The remarkable thing is its inno…
Integrating ancient Chinese feng shui philosophy with smart city technologies
China’s unprecedented urbanization has fueled technological innovation while simultaneously intensifying environmental degradation, cultural erosion, and social inequality. Amid this tension, traditional philosophies such as Feng Shui – long embedded in Chinese spatial planning – remain underutilized in the context of smart city development. This study explores the integration of classical Chinese feng shui philosophy with advanced smart city tec…
Quantum computing-artificial intelligence synergy for adaptive urban morphogenesis
China’s hyper-growth cities face unprecedented uncertainty arising from intertwined economic, social, and environmental stresses that challenge traditional static approaches to urban planning. This article introduces the novel concept of adaptive urban morphogenesis—an evolving and dynamic configuration of urban structure and function—enabled by the synergistic integration of quantum computing (QC) and artificial intelligence (AI). We propose emp…
Using mobile phone data registration to determine urban mobility patterns
Urban forms are central to the operation of cities. However, traditional approaches rarely capture human mobility. In this study, we used mobile phone data from Iran (Tehran/Balad.ir) and China (Shanghai/Gaode Maps) to introduce a demand-driven “urban pattern of need.” Using density-based spatial clustering of applications with Noise (radius of neighborhood, ε = 1 km, minimum number of points, min_samples = 50) and kernel density estimation, we a…
The role of urban planning in shaping resilient futures
This essay critically reflects on the conjunction of city planning and high technology and explores the philosophical, ethical, and practical implications of technological determinism in shaping a sustainable urban future. The essay contends that technology truly has potential to make cities more sustainable and efficient, yet it poses fundamental questions concerning the values carried by technological systems. The article presents a philosophic…
Embedding the metaverse into regional planning for sustainability
The concept of the metaverse, a collective virtual shared space resulting from the convergence of virtually enhanced physical and digital reality, has gained significant traction in recent years. W
The role of metaverse in urban planning
Decentralized smart city transport via quantum computing and NFT spatial governance
Leveraging NFTs for sustainable urban finance
Tokenizing the city
Applying NFTs to urban planning offers revolutionary potential but raises serious equity concerns. Although NFTs are linked to digital art speculation, their underlying technology, decentralized ownership, smart contracts, and tamper-proof records could transform participatory planning, land-use management, and community asset stewardship. This article discusses how NFTs could decentralize planning power by enabling tokenized community land trust…
Beyond solutionism
This Viewpoint article discusses the transformative promise of quantum-secured NFTs in advancing progressive city government, examining their conditional potential as tools of radical redistribution, rather than technical fixes. At the intersection of the cryptographic power of quantum computing and the potential to tokenise collective NFT rights, we propose a framework for decentralised urban commons from housing cooperatives to public space gov…
The digital city and the struggle for urban public spaces
As digital technologies are increasingly integrated into urban infrastructures, the concept of public space is being transformed. The present paper addresses the relationship between the digital city and urban commons and how digitalization reinforces and subverts the public space paradigm in the post-neoliberal city. While digital technologies promise greater efficiency, connectivity, and civic participation, they also exacerbate social inequali…
Beyond smart cities
Contemporary cities increasingly use sensor arrays, Internet of Things infrastructure, and AI-driven dashboards under the guise of ‘smart urbanism.’ However, such measures are fundamentally reactiv
Quantum computing and NFT urbanism
The intersection of quantum computing and NFTs consolidates computational capitalism's hold on urban space, threatening data-colonial entrenchment. Though liberatory hypothetical applications can be envisioned, prevailing technical designs and ownership structures (e.g. Big Tech-dominated quantum cloud services/NFT markets) default towards entrenching spatial hierarchies. This commentary discusses how such technologies could democratize urban spa…
Computer Science (8 works) · Smart Cities and Technologies (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Urban planning (6 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)