Luna Khirfan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luna Khirfan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luna |
| FAMILY NAME | Khirfan |
| SIGNATURE | KHIRFAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4978-7521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Urban stream daylighting as a nature-based solution
As the climate crisis drives the uptake of nature-based solutions (NbS), daylighting culverted urban streams is gaining traction. Yet, questions abound on how to approach stream daylighting and on its impacts. This study responds through a scaffolded literature review: 1) a scoping review on transformative and incremental adaptations that led to a comparative framework of four transformative-incremental adaptations criteria and their correspondin…
Epistemic justice in flood-adaptive green infrastructure planning
Evidence shows that green infrastructure planning relies on technocratic and economic valuation approaches to protect lands of high monetary value against flooding without considering climate justice. Contrasting epistemic justice against recognition and socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services, this study explores how flood-adaptive green infrastructure planning may recognize and include the local experiential knowledge of under-represente…
A climate resilience research renewal agenda
Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three key lessons are identified. The first lesson is generic, that climate change risk coexists and interacts with other risks through overlapping social processes, conditions and decision-making contexts…
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan
Notwithstanding the increased interest in, and development of, sociocultural valuation methods, the structure and replicability of these methods' procedures are critiqued. To overcome this, we develop a theoretical framework based on deliberation, local ecological knowledge, and quantified values that we operationalize by adapting a conventional Q-method (a mixed-methods research approach) into a deliberative process by combining it with the qual…
Digging for the truth
To date, review articles examining stream daylighting (de-culverting buried streams) are limited in scope, report on only a fraction of available publications, and focus on publications’ explicit (manifest) content rather than their underlying constructs (latent content). This review combines the methods of systematic literature reviews and inductive content analysis to better understand the scope and nature of the literature on stream daylightin…
Planning and Unplanning Amman
World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism
Contents: Part I The Context: Historic urban landscapes: world heritage and the contradictions of tourism Historic and morphological review. Part II Place-Making: Documentation and value assessments: the identification of local and global significance Place-making strategies Public participation in world heritage planning: from evolution to implementation. Part III Place Experience: Place experience Conclusions. Bibliography Index
Sustainable Urbanism in Abu Dhabi
Notwithstanding the role of cross-national transfer of planning knowledge globally, there is a dearth of in-depth research that examines the transfer process. In recent years, Vancouver has garnered international acclaim as one of the world’s emerging “eco-cities,” and the planning model applied there has begun to be emulated in numerous foreign contexts. As the capital of the United Arab Emirates and an emerging global business center, Abu Dhabi…
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Consulting firms providing policy advice to governments is a widespread phenomenon. This article asks why municipalities employ urban planning consultant firms to advise on public sector projects. Municipal employees from 19 mid‐sized O ntario cities responded to online survey questionnaires asking for their opinions on why urban planning consultant firms are hired by their cities. In testing four hypotheses, this study found functionalism (the n…
Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi
Understanding the links between inherited built forms and urban design
This comparative study of three historical layers of the urban form of Athens in Greece and Alexandria in Egypt focuses on the links between heritage and the design of the public realm (street networks, public open spaces, and civic structures). The approach combines Geographical Information Systems, elements of town-plan analysis, and historical archival research. The aim is to improve understanding of the impact of heritage on the design of the…
Traces on the palimpsest
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Consulting firms providing policy advice to governments is a widespread phenomenon. This article asks why municipalities employ urban planning consultant firms to advise on public sector projects. Municipal employees from 19 mid‐sized O ntario cities responded to online survey questionnaires asking for their opinions on why urban planning consultant firms are hired by their cities. In testing four hypotheses, this study found functionalism (the n…
Traces on the palimpsest
Sustainable Urbanism in Abu Dhabi
Notwithstanding the role of cross-national transfer of planning knowledge globally, there is a dearth of in-depth research that examines the transfer process. In recent years, Vancouver has garnered international acclaim as one of the world’s emerging “eco-cities,” and the planning model applied there has begun to be emulated in numerous foreign contexts. As the capital of the United Arab Emirates and an emerging global business center, Abu Dhabi…
Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi
Understanding the links between inherited built forms and urban design
This comparative study of three historical layers of the urban form of Athens in Greece and Alexandria in Egypt focuses on the links between heritage and the design of the public realm (street networks, public open spaces, and civic structures). The approach combines Geographical Information Systems, elements of town-plan analysis, and historical archival research. The aim is to improve understanding of the impact of heritage on the design of the…
Traces on the palimpsest
Sustainable Urbanism in Abu Dhabi
Notwithstanding the role of cross-national transfer of planning knowledge globally, there is a dearth of in-depth research that examines the transfer process. In recent years, Vancouver has garnered international acclaim as one of the world’s emerging “eco-cities,” and the planning model applied there has begun to be emulated in numerous foreign contexts. As the capital of the United Arab Emirates and an emerging global business center, Abu Dhabi…
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Consulting firms providing policy advice to governments is a widespread phenomenon. This article asks why municipalities employ urban planning consultant firms to advise on public sector projects. Municipal employees from 19 mid‐sized O ntario cities responded to online survey questionnaires asking for their opinions on why urban planning consultant firms are hired by their cities. In testing four hypotheses, this study found functionalism (the n…
Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi
World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism
Contents: Part I The Context: Historic urban landscapes: world heritage and the contradictions of tourism Historic and morphological review. Part II Place-Making: Documentation and value assessments: the identification of local and global significance Place-making strategies Public participation in world heritage planning: from evolution to implementation. Part III Place Experience: Place experience Conclusions. Bibliography Index
Planning and Unplanning Amman
Digging for the truth
To date, review articles examining stream daylighting (de-culverting buried streams) are limited in scope, report on only a fraction of available publications, and focus on publications’ explicit (manifest) content rather than their underlying constructs (latent content). This review combines the methods of systematic literature reviews and inductive content analysis to better understand the scope and nature of the literature on stream daylightin…
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan
Notwithstanding the increased interest in, and development of, sociocultural valuation methods, the structure and replicability of these methods' procedures are critiqued. To overcome this, we develop a theoretical framework based on deliberation, local ecological knowledge, and quantified values that we operationalize by adapting a conventional Q-method (a mixed-methods research approach) into a deliberative process by combining it with the qual…
A climate resilience research renewal agenda
Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three key lessons are identified. The first lesson is generic, that climate change risk coexists and interacts with other risks through overlapping social processes, conditions and decision-making contexts…
Epistemic justice in flood-adaptive green infrastructure planning
Evidence shows that green infrastructure planning relies on technocratic and economic valuation approaches to protect lands of high monetary value against flooding without considering climate justice. Contrasting epistemic justice against recognition and socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services, this study explores how flood-adaptive green infrastructure planning may recognize and include the local experiential knowledge of under-represente…
Urban stream daylighting as a nature-based solution
As the climate crisis drives the uptake of nature-based solutions (NbS), daylighting culverted urban streams is gaining traction. Yet, questions abound on how to approach stream daylighting and on its impacts. This study responds through a scaffolded literature review: 1) a scoping review on transformative and incremental adaptations that led to a comparative framework of four transformative-incremental adaptations criteria and their correspondin…
Geography (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Urban planning (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works)