Tigran Haas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4581113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tigran Haas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tigran |
| FAMILY NAME | Haas |
| SIGNATURE | HAAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2386-0663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Data Without Theory
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) has moved from a contested research program toward a standardized framework for practice, reflected in ISO 22341, the European EN/CEN 14383 family, accreditation schemes, and national guidance. This critical conceptual review examines the theoretical condition of the design-facing cluster of environmental criminology rather than the field as a whole, and distinguishes refinement, extension, an…
Urban Heritage as Embodied Intelligence
Urban heritage structures are most commonly understood as memorial artifacts, tourism assets, or redevelopment resources. While this common view acknowledges cultural and economic value, it overlooks a deeper function of heritage within the long evolution of human settlements. This paper advances a counter thesis: in addition to its historic contingencies and power relationships—which are real, but only part of the picture—urban heritage embodies…
Designing the dialectic
The essay by Alexander Cuthbert and Ayu Suartika (2025), ‘Ideology, science and the New Urban Design – critique and evolution’, offers a timely and provocative contribution to the ongoing debate ab
Achieving Humanist Cities
As planners and urbanists continue to debate urban reforms needed to achieve humanist ideals – including just forms of sustainability – several different schools of thought are vying for influence, including cultural urbanism (celebrating the everyday, temporal, occasional, and timeless), pluralist urbanism (aiming for a co-produced city that is more democratic, participatory, and open-ended), and inclusive urbanism (focusing on the right to the …
Sustainable Urban Transect Modeling for Applied Social Sciences
The complexities of contemporary global urban, political, economic, and environmental issues are evident.We are facing the consequences of accelerating and rapid urbanization, the scarcity of natural resources and their mismanagement, the impact of significant errors in ourresponses to natural and man-made disasters, and the increasing demand for and complexityof greatly expanding transportation flows (Haas, 2012).Our societies have also undergon…
Introduction
Christopher Alexander, who died in March 2022, was undeniably one of the most influential, if sometimes controversial, urban thinkers of the last half-century. From Notes on the Synthesis of Form , his first book and Harvard PhD thesis, to the landmark “A City is Not a Tree,” to the classic best-sellers A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building , to his more difficult and controversial magnum opus, The Nature of Order , Alexander has le…
New Urbanism in the New Urban Agenda
We present evidence that New Urbanism, defined as a set of normative urban characteristics codified in the 1996 Charter of the New Urbanism, reached a seminal moment—in mission if not in name—with the 2016 New Urban Agenda, a landmark document adopted by acclamation by all 193 member states of the United Nations. We compare the two documents and find key parallels between them (including mix of uses, walkable multi-modal streets, buildings defini…
What Still Matters in a City. The Covid-19 Pandemic Offers a “Teachable Moment” Illustrating that Public Spaces Must Simultaneously Connect us, and Protect us too
Various commentators have sought to assess the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban form and public space, with predictions ranging from “the end of urban density,” to a new impetus for auto-encapsulated sprawl, to exacerbation of the effects of urban inequality, to an explosion of digital surveillance, to a return to relative normalcy with new protective strategies. Here we tease out a more basic lesson about public space: that it …
Spatial dynamics of long-term urban retail decline in three transatlantic cities
Conceptualizing Public Space Using a Multiple Sorting Task–Exploring the Links between Loneliness and Public Space
This study tests the viability of multiple sorting tasks (MST) as a method to explore perceptions of public space and its potential for people that are vulnerable to loneliness. The procedure integrates qualitative and quantitative aspects and obviates the challenge of people articulating how they interact with their surroundings, especially being aware of what features of their environment are influencing them. Two samples, each with six partici…
Public Space in the New Urban Agenda. The Challenge of Implementation
The New Urban Agenda – the landmark 2016 agreement for sustainable urban development that has now been adopted by consensus by 193 nations – contains no fewer than nine paragraphs extensively discussing the importance of public space. Among other things, the document describes public spaces as “drivers of social and economic development,” “enhancing safety and security, favoring social and inter-generational interaction and the appreciation of di…
Urban Heritage as a Generator of Landscapes
At this historical moment, the urban planning and design professions are confronted with the twin challenges of unprecedented rapid urbanization on the one hand, and declining post-industrial regions on the other. In this environment, there are many different and often conflicting ideas about urban heritage and its relevance for contemporary urban planning and design. In this paper, we look for commonalities and a way forward from among a range o…
New Urbanism
New urbanism is considered to be the most influential urban‐planning and design movement, and a leading paradigm to emerge from the latter part of the twentieth century as a reaction to sprawl, post‐World War II rampant development, zoning, and automobile dependency. The idea behind the new urbanism design philosophy is to identify and deliver solutions that work in a twofold manner: in defining sustainable and identifiable urban forms and also i…
In the Post-Urban World
Hybrid spatialities
The aim of this research is to study the emergence and evolution of the multi-storey extension (MSE) of socialist blocks of flats in the form of additional storeys or lofts on top of host buildings, which is seen as a dominant model of post-socialist spatial change in inherited multi-storey housing areas in Serbia. Relying on an analysis of empirical data sources, interviews, observation and a comparative analysis, the paper investigates the MSE …
Transmutation and Reinvention of Public Spaces Through Ideals of Urban Planning and Design
Our cities are undergoing a rapid transformation of public spaces due to different factors, such as economic and cultural globalization, demographic transformations, marketing strategies, urban planning and design approaches, medialization reinterpretations, social networks, and others. The urban realm itself is the collection of public spaces and places—buildings, squares, streets, landscapes, and ecosystems, as well as processes, mindscapes, an…
Poststructuralist fiddling while the world burns
We critique the current crisis for the environmental design professions: facing urgent ecological, social and economic imperatives, key leadership has become mired in the confusions of do-nothing postmodernist artistic doctrine. The result is a self-made state of paralysis, leaving the egregious mistakes of the past to be endlessly repeated, while it only matters that they are cloaked in ever more aesthetically extravagant artistic garb. We argue…
Poststrukturalisti križem rok opazujejo svet v plamenih
Transmutation and Reinvention of Public Spaces Through Ideals of Urban Planning and Design
Our cities are undergoing a rapid transformation of public spaces due to different factors, such as economic and cultural globalization, demographic transformations, marketing strategies, urban planning and design approaches, medialization reinterpretations, social networks, and others. The urban realm itself is the collection of public spaces and places—buildings, squares, streets, landscapes, and ecosystems, as well as processes, mindscapes, an…
Conceptualizing Public Space Using a Multiple Sorting Task–Exploring the Links between Loneliness and Public Space
This study tests the viability of multiple sorting tasks (MST) as a method to explore perceptions of public space and its potential for people that are vulnerable to loneliness. The procedure integrates qualitative and quantitative aspects and obviates the challenge of people articulating how they interact with their surroundings, especially being aware of what features of their environment are influencing them. Two samples, each with six partici…
Hybrid spatialities
The aim of this research is to study the emergence and evolution of the multi-storey extension (MSE) of socialist blocks of flats in the form of additional storeys or lofts on top of host buildings, which is seen as a dominant model of post-socialist spatial change in inherited multi-storey housing areas in Serbia. Relying on an analysis of empirical data sources, interviews, observation and a comparative analysis, the paper investigates the MSE …
Urban Heritage as a Generator of Landscapes
At this historical moment, the urban planning and design professions are confronted with the twin challenges of unprecedented rapid urbanization on the one hand, and declining post-industrial regions on the other. In this environment, there are many different and often conflicting ideas about urban heritage and its relevance for contemporary urban planning and design. In this paper, we look for commonalities and a way forward from among a range o…
Spatial dynamics of long-term urban retail decline in three transatlantic cities
Poststructuralist fiddling while the world burns
We critique the current crisis for the environmental design professions: facing urgent ecological, social and economic imperatives, key leadership has become mired in the confusions of do-nothing postmodernist artistic doctrine. The result is a self-made state of paralysis, leaving the egregious mistakes of the past to be endlessly repeated, while it only matters that they are cloaked in ever more aesthetically extravagant artistic garb. We argue…
Poststrukturalisti križem rok opazujejo svet v plamenih
Transmutation and Reinvention of Public Spaces Through Ideals of Urban Planning and Design
Our cities are undergoing a rapid transformation of public spaces due to different factors, such as economic and cultural globalization, demographic transformations, marketing strategies, urban planning and design approaches, medialization reinterpretations, social networks, and others. The urban realm itself is the collection of public spaces and places—buildings, squares, streets, landscapes, and ecosystems, as well as processes, mindscapes, an…
Hybrid spatialities
The aim of this research is to study the emergence and evolution of the multi-storey extension (MSE) of socialist blocks of flats in the form of additional storeys or lofts on top of host buildings, which is seen as a dominant model of post-socialist spatial change in inherited multi-storey housing areas in Serbia. Relying on an analysis of empirical data sources, interviews, observation and a comparative analysis, the paper investigates the MSE …
In the Post-Urban World
Public Space in the New Urban Agenda. The Challenge of Implementation
The New Urban Agenda – the landmark 2016 agreement for sustainable urban development that has now been adopted by consensus by 193 nations – contains no fewer than nine paragraphs extensively discussing the importance of public space. Among other things, the document describes public spaces as “drivers of social and economic development,” “enhancing safety and security, favoring social and inter-generational interaction and the appreciation of di…
Urban Heritage as a Generator of Landscapes
At this historical moment, the urban planning and design professions are confronted with the twin challenges of unprecedented rapid urbanization on the one hand, and declining post-industrial regions on the other. In this environment, there are many different and often conflicting ideas about urban heritage and its relevance for contemporary urban planning and design. In this paper, we look for commonalities and a way forward from among a range o…
New Urbanism
New urbanism is considered to be the most influential urban‐planning and design movement, and a leading paradigm to emerge from the latter part of the twentieth century as a reaction to sprawl, post‐World War II rampant development, zoning, and automobile dependency. The idea behind the new urbanism design philosophy is to identify and deliver solutions that work in a twofold manner: in defining sustainable and identifiable urban forms and also i…
Conceptualizing Public Space Using a Multiple Sorting Task–Exploring the Links between Loneliness and Public Space
This study tests the viability of multiple sorting tasks (MST) as a method to explore perceptions of public space and its potential for people that are vulnerable to loneliness. The procedure integrates qualitative and quantitative aspects and obviates the challenge of people articulating how they interact with their surroundings, especially being aware of what features of their environment are influencing them. Two samples, each with six partici…
New Urbanism in the New Urban Agenda
We present evidence that New Urbanism, defined as a set of normative urban characteristics codified in the 1996 Charter of the New Urbanism, reached a seminal moment—in mission if not in name—with the 2016 New Urban Agenda, a landmark document adopted by acclamation by all 193 member states of the United Nations. We compare the two documents and find key parallels between them (including mix of uses, walkable multi-modal streets, buildings defini…
What Still Matters in a City. The Covid-19 Pandemic Offers a “Teachable Moment” Illustrating that Public Spaces Must Simultaneously Connect us, and Protect us too
Various commentators have sought to assess the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban form and public space, with predictions ranging from “the end of urban density,” to a new impetus for auto-encapsulated sprawl, to exacerbation of the effects of urban inequality, to an explosion of digital surveillance, to a return to relative normalcy with new protective strategies. Here we tease out a more basic lesson about public space: that it …
Spatial dynamics of long-term urban retail decline in three transatlantic cities
Sustainable Urban Transect Modeling for Applied Social Sciences
The complexities of contemporary global urban, political, economic, and environmental issues are evident.We are facing the consequences of accelerating and rapid urbanization, the scarcity of natural resources and their mismanagement, the impact of significant errors in ourresponses to natural and man-made disasters, and the increasing demand for and complexityof greatly expanding transportation flows (Haas, 2012).Our societies have also undergon…
Introduction
Christopher Alexander, who died in March 2022, was undeniably one of the most influential, if sometimes controversial, urban thinkers of the last half-century. From Notes on the Synthesis of Form , his first book and Harvard PhD thesis, to the landmark “A City is Not a Tree,” to the classic best-sellers A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building , to his more difficult and controversial magnum opus, The Nature of Order , Alexander has le…
Achieving Humanist Cities
As planners and urbanists continue to debate urban reforms needed to achieve humanist ideals – including just forms of sustainability – several different schools of thought are vying for influence, including cultural urbanism (celebrating the everyday, temporal, occasional, and timeless), pluralist urbanism (aiming for a co-produced city that is more democratic, participatory, and open-ended), and inclusive urbanism (focusing on the right to the …
Designing the dialectic
The essay by Alexander Cuthbert and Ayu Suartika (2025), ‘Ideology, science and the New Urban Design – critique and evolution’, offers a timely and provocative contribution to the ongoing debate ab
Data Without Theory
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) has moved from a contested research program toward a standardized framework for practice, reflected in ISO 22341, the European EN/CEN 14383 family, accreditation schemes, and national guidance. This critical conceptual review examines the theoretical condition of the design-facing cluster of environmental criminology rather than the field as a whole, and distinguishes refinement, extension, an…
Urban Heritage as Embodied Intelligence
Urban heritage structures are most commonly understood as memorial artifacts, tourism assets, or redevelopment resources. While this common view acknowledges cultural and economic value, it overlooks a deeper function of heritage within the long evolution of human settlements. This paper advances a counter thesis: in addition to its historic contingencies and power relationships—which are real, but only part of the picture—urban heritage embodies…
Sociology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (7 works) · Urban planning (7 works) · Architectural engineering (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Urban design (6 works) · Architecture (5 works)