Ramzi Farhat
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramzi Farhat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramzi |
| FAMILY NAME | Farhat |
| SIGNATURE | FARHAT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2189-6515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Design guidelines for wieldier discretionary review
The use of design guidelines in development control continues to be popular, especially when regulators seek to limit the scope of discretionary latitude. However, the question of how a guidelines framework can be designed to suit the time-constrained and deliberative nature of review hearings remains unaddressed. Using evidence from Portland, this study concludes that boards and staff work around these difficulties by using guidelines in combina…
Is Semi-Discretionary Design Review Wieldy? Evidence from Seattle’s Program
This article explores the question of how design guidelines supporting deliberative design review can be said to be wieldy, a concept explored by considering how frequently, faithfully, and prescriptively they are used. A content analysis of development applications from Seattle’s (WA) review program lends support to the specification of guidelines around considerations of street frontage, architectural concept, massing and open space. However, t…
What Brand Is This Place? Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Downtown Revitalization
This article investigates place-branding as a contested “cultural politics.” Through a case study of the creation of a “Downtown” Pomona (California) from the “Antiques Row” and “Arts Colony” that preceded it, the framework furthers our understanding of place-branding by highlighting how communities of interest contest competing cultural outlooks and further outlines the consequences of inadequate attention to the cultural economies that are supp…
Accountability in urban regeneration partnerships
Discourse, institutional identities and intractable planning disputes
This article argues that parties to planning disputes assume policy positions in concordance with institutional identities that are informed by reigning planning discourses. Building on the work of Kenneth Burke and its advancement through the perspective of positionality in socio-linguistics, a case study of the dispute around the completion of highway I-710 through South Pasadena, California, is used to illustrate how the potential for intracta…
Progressive planning, biased discourse, and critique
Progressive theorists and reflective practitioners have exhorted agents to renounce exploitative planning discourses. This repudiation can, however, only be successful if the agent’s own investment in biased discourses is accounted for. The value of this perspective is illustrated in an analysis of neoliberalism as a contemporary hegemonic discourse. It is discussed how popular anxieties about social mobility and community power motivate the inve…
What Brand Is This Place? Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Downtown Revitalization
This article investigates place-branding as a contested “cultural politics.” Through a case study of the creation of a “Downtown” Pomona (California) from the “Antiques Row” and “Arts Colony” that preceded it, the framework furthers our understanding of place-branding by highlighting how communities of interest contest competing cultural outlooks and further outlines the consequences of inadequate attention to the cultural economies that are supp…
Accountability in urban regeneration partnerships
Discourse, institutional identities and intractable planning disputes
This article argues that parties to planning disputes assume policy positions in concordance with institutional identities that are informed by reigning planning discourses. Building on the work of Kenneth Burke and its advancement through the perspective of positionality in socio-linguistics, a case study of the dispute around the completion of highway I-710 through South Pasadena, California, is used to illustrate how the potential for intracta…
Progressive planning, biased discourse, and critique
Progressive theorists and reflective practitioners have exhorted agents to renounce exploitative planning discourses. This repudiation can, however, only be successful if the agent’s own investment in biased discourses is accounted for. The value of this perspective is illustrated in an analysis of neoliberalism as a contemporary hegemonic discourse. It is discussed how popular anxieties about social mobility and community power motivate the inve…
Progressive planning, biased discourse, and critique
Progressive theorists and reflective practitioners have exhorted agents to renounce exploitative planning discourses. This repudiation can, however, only be successful if the agent’s own investment in biased discourses is accounted for. The value of this perspective is illustrated in an analysis of neoliberalism as a contemporary hegemonic discourse. It is discussed how popular anxieties about social mobility and community power motivate the inve…
Discourse, institutional identities and intractable planning disputes
This article argues that parties to planning disputes assume policy positions in concordance with institutional identities that are informed by reigning planning discourses. Building on the work of Kenneth Burke and its advancement through the perspective of positionality in socio-linguistics, a case study of the dispute around the completion of highway I-710 through South Pasadena, California, is used to illustrate how the potential for intracta…
What Brand Is This Place? Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Downtown Revitalization
This article investigates place-branding as a contested “cultural politics.” Through a case study of the creation of a “Downtown” Pomona (California) from the “Antiques Row” and “Arts Colony” that preceded it, the framework furthers our understanding of place-branding by highlighting how communities of interest contest competing cultural outlooks and further outlines the consequences of inadequate attention to the cultural economies that are supp…
Accountability in urban regeneration partnerships
Is Semi-Discretionary Design Review Wieldy? Evidence from Seattle’s Program
This article explores the question of how design guidelines supporting deliberative design review can be said to be wieldy, a concept explored by considering how frequently, faithfully, and prescriptively they are used. A content analysis of development applications from Seattle’s (WA) review program lends support to the specification of guidelines around considerations of street frontage, architectural concept, massing and open space. However, t…
Design guidelines for wieldier discretionary review
The use of design guidelines in development control continues to be popular, especially when regulators seek to limit the scope of discretionary latitude. However, the question of how a guidelines framework can be designed to suit the time-constrained and deliberative nature of review hearings remains unaddressed. Using evidence from Portland, this study concludes that boards and staff work around these difficulties by using guidelines in combina…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)