Asma Mehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 75394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asma Mehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asma |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehan |
| SIGNATURE | MEHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7381-6663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethnic entrepreneurship and cultural dynamics
This paper examines how immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to the social, economic, and cultural revitalization of Lubbock, Texas, a mid-sized non-gateway U.S. city. Focusing on South Asian–owned grocery stores and Latinx-owned beauty salons, the study analyzes culturally grounded commercial ventures as everyday infrastructures of urban renewal. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines demographic analysis, qualitative interviews, and ethnogr…
Recovery as community practice
Historic preservation has traditionally prioritized architectural fabric and canonical narratives, often marginalizing the social relations, labor histories, and power structures embedded in heritage sites. This paper advances recovery as a distinct analytical and governance-oriented framework in heritage and planning, moving beyond restoration, resilience, and adaptive reuse by foregrounding relational repair, redistribution of interpretive auth…
After Oil
Integrating Emerging Design‐Build Technologies for Resilient Housing in the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation faces critical challenges in developing housing that is resilient to climate change while honoring cultural heritage. Socio‐economic disparities, limited infrastructure, and extreme environmental conditions demand innovative solutions that integrate sustainable practices with traditional Navajo values. This study critically examines the potential of smart design‐build technologies to create resilient, culturally appropriate hous…
Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development
Today’s exponential advancement of information and communication technologies is reconfiguring participatory urban development practices. The use of digital technology implies new forms of decentralised governance, collaborative knowledge production, and social activism. The digital transformation has the potential to overcome shortcomings in citizen participation, make participatory processes more deliberative, and enable collaborative approache…
Digital Feminist Placemaking
Throughout Iran and various countries, the recent calls of the “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (in Persian), “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (in Kurdish), or “Woman, Life, Freedom” (in English) movement call for change to acknowledge the importance of women. While these feminist protests and demonstrations have been met with brutality, systematic oppression, and internet blackouts within Iran, they have captured significant social media attention and coverage outside …
Kurdish women’s interactions in European urban public space and the extent of their social integration
The development of accessible and inclusive public spaces has been proposed as a means to address this gender inequality and promote social inclusion. However, there is a lack of specific analysis on the interactions and integration of Kurdish migrant women in European cities. This study explores the social integration of Kurdish migrant women in European urban settings, with a focus on Vienna and Cologne. It investigates the role of urban public…
Feminism in the borderscape
This article critically examines the feminist movement in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, highlighting the struggles and activism of Juarense women against social injustices, particularly those exacerbated by machismo, the Narco War, and the manufacturing industry. The analysis explores the roots of machismo in Mexican culture, the impact of the maquiladora industry on women's lives, and the rise of feminist activism in response to these challenges. Empha…
Informal and revolutionary feminist placemaking
Urban spaces, often emerging outside formal, recognized boundaries, underscore the pivotal role women play in shaping these environments. Despite the enduring influence of patriarchal and hierarchical structures that render these spaces overtly gendered, it is within these contexts that women's actions become particularly transformative. Drawing from feminist urban theories of the global south, this paper investigates informal placemaking, femini…
Navigating AI-Enabled Modalities of Representation and Materialization in Architecture
What’s next? Some priorities for young planning scholars to tackle tomorrow’s complex challenges
Many European planning schools recently celebrated their 50th anniversary: a sign that planning education became a distinct and established discipline in Europe. Simultaneously, political regimes, paradigms, cultures, and economies continue fuelling mixed connotations within the planning sector. Additionally, growing wicked problems in built areas emphasize an even greater need for well-trained planners. These challenges span climate crises, wars…
Gio Ponti and Villa Namazee
This article studies the architectural design and cultural significance of Villa Namazee, a modernist building designed by Italian architect Gio Ponti in Tehran. The study explores how the building, once a symbol of modernity and progress, has been neglected, delisted from the national heritage, and fallen into disrepair. Focusing primarily on the case of Villa Namazee in Tehran, Iran, as an example of Ponti’s projects in the Middle Eastern conte…
Spatial Reflections on Muslims' Segregation in Britain
The diversity of multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic groups and communities within Britain has created cohesion and integration challenges for different community groups and authorities to adapt to the current diverse society. More recently, there has been an increased focus on Muslim segregation in Britain in official reports and reviews. Those documents mentioned the Muslims' segregation (directly or indirectly) for various reasons…
Tehran
Regulation and policy-making for urban cultural heritage preservation
Purpose Despite various comparative studies in the field of cultural heritage protection in the world, there is still a significant lack of comparative research on policies related to the legal system of countries' governance. The purpose of this study is to address the comparative policies in Iran and Italy, with a particular focus on the results of the executive experiences of two different types of policies in the cities of Oroumieh (North-Wes…
Years of Borders Evolution in Dunkirk
Since the 1860s, petroleum companies, through their influence on local governments, port authorities, international actors and the general public gradually became more dominant in shaping the urban form of ports and cities. Under their development and pressure, the relationships between industrial and urban areas in port cities hosting oil facilities evolved in time. The borders limiting industrial and housing territories have continuously change…
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and cohesion throughout the city; and the country of Malaysia, with the implementation of a programme called 1Malaysia. In this book, the authors investigate the aims of this programme—predominantly to unify the Malaysian society—and how these objectives resonate in the daily spatial practices of the city’s …
De-colonizing public spaces in Malaysia
This article discusses places and practices of young heterosexual Malaysian Muslims dating in non-private urban spaces. It is based on research conducted in Kuala Lumpur in two consecutive summers 2016 and 2017. Malaysian law (Khalwat law) does not allow for two unrelated people (where at least one of them is Muslim) of opposite sexes to be within 'suspicious proximity' of one another in public. This law significantly influences behaviors and act…
“Tabula Rasa” Planning
The concept of Tabula Rasa, as a desire for sweeping renewal and creating a potential site for the construction of utopian dreams is presupposition of Modern Architecture. Starting from the middle of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Iranian urban and architectural history has been integrated with modernization, and western-influenced modernity. The case of Tehran as the Middle Eastern political capital is the main scene for…
De-colonizing public spaces in Malaysia
This article discusses places and practices of young heterosexual Malaysian Muslims dating in non-private urban spaces. It is based on research conducted in Kuala Lumpur in two consecutive summers 2016 and 2017. Malaysian law (Khalwat law) does not allow for two unrelated people (where at least one of them is Muslim) of opposite sexes to be within 'suspicious proximity' of one another in public. This law significantly influences behaviors and act…
Gio Ponti and Villa Namazee
This article studies the architectural design and cultural significance of Villa Namazee, a modernist building designed by Italian architect Gio Ponti in Tehran. The study explores how the building, once a symbol of modernity and progress, has been neglected, delisted from the national heritage, and fallen into disrepair. Focusing primarily on the case of Villa Namazee in Tehran, Iran, as an example of Ponti’s projects in the Middle Eastern conte…
Spatial Reflections on Muslims' Segregation in Britain
The diversity of multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic groups and communities within Britain has created cohesion and integration challenges for different community groups and authorities to adapt to the current diverse society. More recently, there has been an increased focus on Muslim segregation in Britain in official reports and reviews. Those documents mentioned the Muslims' segregation (directly or indirectly) for various reasons…
“Tabula Rasa” Planning
The concept of Tabula Rasa, as a desire for sweeping renewal and creating a potential site for the construction of utopian dreams is presupposition of Modern Architecture. Starting from the middle of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Iranian urban and architectural history has been integrated with modernization, and western-influenced modernity. The case of Tehran as the Middle Eastern political capital is the main scene for…
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and cohesion throughout the city; and the country of Malaysia, with the implementation of a programme called 1Malaysia. In this book, the authors investigate the aims of this programme—predominantly to unify the Malaysian society—and how these objectives resonate in the daily spatial practices of the city’s …
De-colonizing public spaces in Malaysia
This article discusses places and practices of young heterosexual Malaysian Muslims dating in non-private urban spaces. It is based on research conducted in Kuala Lumpur in two consecutive summers 2016 and 2017. Malaysian law (Khalwat law) does not allow for two unrelated people (where at least one of them is Muslim) of opposite sexes to be within 'suspicious proximity' of one another in public. This law significantly influences behaviors and act…
Years of Borders Evolution in Dunkirk
Since the 1860s, petroleum companies, through their influence on local governments, port authorities, international actors and the general public gradually became more dominant in shaping the urban form of ports and cities. Under their development and pressure, the relationships between industrial and urban areas in port cities hosting oil facilities evolved in time. The borders limiting industrial and housing territories have continuously change…
Tehran
Regulation and policy-making for urban cultural heritage preservation
Purpose Despite various comparative studies in the field of cultural heritage protection in the world, there is still a significant lack of comparative research on policies related to the legal system of countries' governance. The purpose of this study is to address the comparative policies in Iran and Italy, with a particular focus on the results of the executive experiences of two different types of policies in the cities of Oroumieh (North-Wes…
Navigating AI-Enabled Modalities of Representation and Materialization in Architecture
What’s next? Some priorities for young planning scholars to tackle tomorrow’s complex challenges
Many European planning schools recently celebrated their 50th anniversary: a sign that planning education became a distinct and established discipline in Europe. Simultaneously, political regimes, paradigms, cultures, and economies continue fuelling mixed connotations within the planning sector. Additionally, growing wicked problems in built areas emphasize an even greater need for well-trained planners. These challenges span climate crises, wars…
Gio Ponti and Villa Namazee
This article studies the architectural design and cultural significance of Villa Namazee, a modernist building designed by Italian architect Gio Ponti in Tehran. The study explores how the building, once a symbol of modernity and progress, has been neglected, delisted from the national heritage, and fallen into disrepair. Focusing primarily on the case of Villa Namazee in Tehran, Iran, as an example of Ponti’s projects in the Middle Eastern conte…
Spatial Reflections on Muslims' Segregation in Britain
The diversity of multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic groups and communities within Britain has created cohesion and integration challenges for different community groups and authorities to adapt to the current diverse society. More recently, there has been an increased focus on Muslim segregation in Britain in official reports and reviews. Those documents mentioned the Muslims' segregation (directly or indirectly) for various reasons…
Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development
Today’s exponential advancement of information and communication technologies is reconfiguring participatory urban development practices. The use of digital technology implies new forms of decentralised governance, collaborative knowledge production, and social activism. The digital transformation has the potential to overcome shortcomings in citizen participation, make participatory processes more deliberative, and enable collaborative approache…
Digital Feminist Placemaking
Throughout Iran and various countries, the recent calls of the “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (in Persian), “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (in Kurdish), or “Woman, Life, Freedom” (in English) movement call for change to acknowledge the importance of women. While these feminist protests and demonstrations have been met with brutality, systematic oppression, and internet blackouts within Iran, they have captured significant social media attention and coverage outside …
Kurdish women’s interactions in European urban public space and the extent of their social integration
The development of accessible and inclusive public spaces has been proposed as a means to address this gender inequality and promote social inclusion. However, there is a lack of specific analysis on the interactions and integration of Kurdish migrant women in European cities. This study explores the social integration of Kurdish migrant women in European urban settings, with a focus on Vienna and Cologne. It investigates the role of urban public…
Feminism in the borderscape
This article critically examines the feminist movement in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, highlighting the struggles and activism of Juarense women against social injustices, particularly those exacerbated by machismo, the Narco War, and the manufacturing industry. The analysis explores the roots of machismo in Mexican culture, the impact of the maquiladora industry on women's lives, and the rise of feminist activism in response to these challenges. Empha…
Informal and revolutionary feminist placemaking
Urban spaces, often emerging outside formal, recognized boundaries, underscore the pivotal role women play in shaping these environments. Despite the enduring influence of patriarchal and hierarchical structures that render these spaces overtly gendered, it is within these contexts that women's actions become particularly transformative. Drawing from feminist urban theories of the global south, this paper investigates informal placemaking, femini…
After Oil
Integrating Emerging Design‐Build Technologies for Resilient Housing in the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation faces critical challenges in developing housing that is resilient to climate change while honoring cultural heritage. Socio‐economic disparities, limited infrastructure, and extreme environmental conditions demand innovative solutions that integrate sustainable practices with traditional Navajo values. This study critically examines the potential of smart design‐build technologies to create resilient, culturally appropriate hous…
Ethnic entrepreneurship and cultural dynamics
This paper examines how immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to the social, economic, and cultural revitalization of Lubbock, Texas, a mid-sized non-gateway U.S. city. Focusing on South Asian–owned grocery stores and Latinx-owned beauty salons, the study analyzes culturally grounded commercial ventures as everyday infrastructures of urban renewal. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines demographic analysis, qualitative interviews, and ethnogr…
Recovery as community practice
Historic preservation has traditionally prioritized architectural fabric and canonical narratives, often marginalizing the social relations, labor histories, and power structures embedded in heritage sites. This paper advances recovery as a distinct analytical and governance-oriented framework in heritage and planning, moving beyond restoration, resilience, and adaptive reuse by foregrounding relational repair, redistribution of interpretive auth…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social science (4 works)