Mahyar Arefi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6280978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahyar Arefi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahyar |
| FAMILY NAME | Arefi |
| SIGNATURE | AREFI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jundi-Shapur University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6198-5451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
School supply-demand balance and accessibility optimisation
Revisiting liveability and adaptability in urban design
New emerging urban design tools
Urban morphology
Musings on theorizing, co-producing, designing, and encountering the public space
What is new in Placemaking research and practice
Reimagining urban design futures
Self-discovery, storytelling and structuration in urban planning
This research unfolds the step-by-step pedagogical process the students of a graduate urban planning course at the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently experienced and through self-discovery and storytelling synthesized and reflected upon. This three-pronged process ultimately shows the relevancy of the structuration theory as an unintended consequence of identifying what is going on (the nature of urban problems detected), why (analys…
Urban design and walkability revisited
Emerging knowledge on the social dimension of urban design
Are socio-demographic and building characteristics associated with noise complaints
This study explores the nexus between socio-demographics and building attributes on the one hand, and the 311 non-emergency services – a state-of-the-art self-reported data source reflecting the residents’ noise complaints on the other. While inevitable and bothersome regardless of the location or lifestyle, noise demonstrates people’s exposure to it on different scales. This study performs various spatial and statistical analyses integrating spa…
Urban identity, perception, and urban design
Urban design in China
Consilience in Urban Design (?)
This article unfolds how the predominant binary view towards urban design offers an alternative tripartite interpretation. This less orthodox but more realistic probing of the field's methods of praxis (hybridity, spontaneity, and continuity) “dissolves” its dominant formal-informal binary categorizations. Hybridity represents the synergistic city-nature relationship based on visually persuasive methods of design by mimicking natural processes. S…
Social and cultural transformation of urban form
Health, city, and urban design
Cognitive, behavioral, social, and cultural characteristics of the city and urban design
Urban design, safety, livability, & accessibility
Revisiting the public health-urban design nexus in the post-pandemic era
Does scale matter? An overview of the “smart cities” literature
How does mixed-use urbanization affect noise? Empirical research on transit-oriented developments (TODs)
Urban design and adaptative urban forms
Five Episodes of Urban Discovery as a Student Recruitment Strategy in Planning
The literature on graduate-level studio and capstone courses, and the steady decline in student enrollment in recent years demand creative pedagogies to lure undergraduate students into planning. This paper explores the role of self-discovery at the undergraduate level as a conduit toward increasing student recruitment. Forty-seven University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) non-planning major students examined five episodes of urban discovery in the …
The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism
Reflection-In-Action in Land Use Planning
The current wedge between planning education and practice on one hand, and planners’ crisis of identity on the other, call for developing more integrative teaching strategies with measurable outcomes. This paper explores how planners can integrate site planning and design techniques with real estate bottom-lines. Based on project reports for a land use and management class at the University of Texas at Arlington planning program, three teams prop…
What is public about public space
Reflections on the Pedagogy of Place in Planning and Urban Design
This article revisits the concept of place in planning and urban design and proposes a conceptual framework consisting of four ontological constructs of place as a set of visual attributes, product, process, and meaning. The article discusses the theoretical underpinnings of each concept and explores the advantages of a continuum between these terms to help bridge the gap between policy planning and physical design and to move toward a meaningful…
Revisiting the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (Lani)
The dual public policy tensions of people prosperity versus place prosperity and need-based versus asset-based approaches to community development provide a conceptual framework to evaluate the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative. In 1994, this thirty-month program set out to revitalize eight inner-city Los Angeles neighborhoods through technical assistance and seed money. Three distinct categories capture the observed discrepancies among the com…
An asset-based approach to policymaking
Non‐place and placelessness as narratives of loss
Concepts such as non‐place and placelessness can provide planners and designers with new insights to better capture the essence of place. This essay first reviews the literature of place and its byproducts, namely non‐place and placelessness. Against such a backdrop, the paper then explores how the contemporary transformation of the three components of place, namely locale, location and sense of place, has contributed to a narrative of loss. Char…
Revisiting the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (Lani)
The dual public policy tensions of people prosperity versus place prosperity and need-based versus asset-based approaches to community development provide a conceptual framework to evaluate the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative. In 1994, this thirty-month program set out to revitalize eight inner-city Los Angeles neighborhoods through technical assistance and seed money. Three distinct categories capture the observed discrepancies among the com…
What is public about public space
An asset-based approach to policymaking
Reflections on the Pedagogy of Place in Planning and Urban Design
This article revisits the concept of place in planning and urban design and proposes a conceptual framework consisting of four ontological constructs of place as a set of visual attributes, product, process, and meaning. The article discusses the theoretical underpinnings of each concept and explores the advantages of a continuum between these terms to help bridge the gap between policy planning and physical design and to move toward a meaningful…
Towards a conceptual framework for urban management
Morrow Tomorrow
This article explores the pedagogical experience of a group of graduate planning students with diverse undergraduate backgrounds in a degree capstone studio. The studio concentrates on the “shrinking” village of Morrow, Ohio. Following a brief overview of the shrinking cities literature, the article discusses the specific issues of economic decline facing the Village of Morrow and its population. It then delves into two specific aspects of this p…
Iranian New Towns and their Urban Management Issues
City Rules
Emily Talen, City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012).Many planners look down on zoning and think of it more as limiting rather than enabling. While the in
Metaphor, analogy, and the discourse of originality
This article explores the roles metaphors and analogies play in architectural design thinking. Architects, planners, and designers use these cognitive tools extensively. While the linkages between metaphors, analogies, and design thinking are not new, how architects use them is not systematically explored. Metaphors and analogies are used idiosyncratically. What a particular metaphor or analogy signifies varies from person to person and could mea…
Learning from Informal Settlements in Iran
The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism
Reflection-In-Action in Land Use Planning
The current wedge between planning education and practice on one hand, and planners’ crisis of identity on the other, call for developing more integrative teaching strategies with measurable outcomes. This paper explores how planners can integrate site planning and design techniques with real estate bottom-lines. Based on project reports for a land use and management class at the University of Texas at Arlington planning program, three teams prop…
Urban design and adaptative urban forms
Five Episodes of Urban Discovery as a Student Recruitment Strategy in Planning
The literature on graduate-level studio and capstone courses, and the steady decline in student enrollment in recent years demand creative pedagogies to lure undergraduate students into planning. This paper explores the role of self-discovery at the undergraduate level as a conduit toward increasing student recruitment. Forty-seven University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) non-planning major students examined five episodes of urban discovery in the …
Health, city, and urban design
Cognitive, behavioral, social, and cultural characteristics of the city and urban design
Urban design, safety, livability, & accessibility
Revisiting the public health-urban design nexus in the post-pandemic era
Does scale matter? An overview of the “smart cities” literature
How does mixed-use urbanization affect noise? Empirical research on transit-oriented developments (TODs)
Urban identity, perception, and urban design
Urban design in China
Consilience in Urban Design (?)
This article unfolds how the predominant binary view towards urban design offers an alternative tripartite interpretation. This less orthodox but more realistic probing of the field's methods of praxis (hybridity, spontaneity, and continuity) “dissolves” its dominant formal-informal binary categorizations. Hybridity represents the synergistic city-nature relationship based on visually persuasive methods of design by mimicking natural processes. S…
Social and cultural transformation of urban form
Engineering (28 works) · Civil engineering (23 works) · Geography (22 works) · Urban planning (20 works) · Environmental planning (18 works) · Architecture (17 works) · Urban design (17 works) · Landscape architecture (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Urbanism (16 works)