Ramin Keivani
Biographic Data
| ID | 984502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramin Keivani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramin |
| FAMILY NAME | Keivani |
| SIGNATURE | KEIVANI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7140-0218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Promoting active aging in Brazil
Promoting Social Sustainability of Urban Neighbourhoods
The growing significance of neighbourhoods in the urban planning discipline, alongside increasing attention to the social dimension of sustainable communities and societies, has brought to the fore the need to conceptualize socially sustainable neighbourhoods. In this article we reflect critically on the concept of socially sustainable neighbourhoods in two areas, namely definition and operationalization. We then propose a tripartite framework fo…
The triad of social sustainability
Despite recent advances in social sustainability discourse, there is a dearth of working\ndefinitions and evaluation frameworks regarding measuring social sustainability of\nneighbourhoods for research, practice, and policy purposes. Building on the qualitative metaanalysis\nof relevant resources, this paper proposes the triad of social sustainability consisting\nof three pillars of neighbourhood, neighbouring, and neighbours, as a conceptual fra…
Urban sustainability indicators re-visited
This paper proposes a bespoke urban sustainability indicator framework in the context of China’s prevalent property-led urban development. Emphasising local characteristics and incorporating underlying institutions, it advocates a more nuanced, holistic and dynamic approach when addressing sustainability issues. Selection of indicators were based on extensive literature reviews and tested through an international expert survey comprising both Chi…
Impacts of Privatization of Customary Land Rights in Z ambia
In its quest for development, Z ambia is pursuing a land policy that facilitates privatization of customary land. This article investigates the effects of privatization in terms of how it shapes people's behaviour and perception of private tenure and related tenure dynamics. Findings have shown that the appetite to privatize land is growing stronger in peri‐urban areas as land becomes more scarce. Furthermore, privatization of land appears to be …
The Limits and Potentials of the Housing Market Enabling Paradigm
This paper examines the housing policies in China in the last 14 years in the context of the international debate on the World Bank's housing market enabling strategy to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. A review of China's urban housing outcomes reveals housing price inflation and shortage of affordable housing in the fast expanding housing market. The paper analyzes policies to increase both demand for and supply of …
Customary Land Reform to Facilitate Private Investment in Zambia
Participatory Approaches to Land Policy Reform in Zambia
The subject of participation is now at the core of many contemporary development debates. This is promoted within the emerging context of moving away from 'government' to 'governance' as stakeholders are increasingly getting frustrated by governments' continued application of the mundane Decide, Announce, and Defend (DAD) approaches to policy making. However, despite the voluminous amount of literature on participation, there is little scholarly …
Public Management of Urban Land, Enabling Markets and Low-income Housing Provision
This paper examines the first 10 years (1979—89) of the implementation of the Urban Land Act in Iran in order to revisit the debate on the capacity of market-enabling policies to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. The outcome of the Iranian experience during the study period shows that, at the very least, governments can play an important and effective role in low- and middle-income housing provision through direct prov…
The Interface of Globalization and Peripheral Land in the Cities of the South
This essay examines the impact of globalization on land peripheral to large cities of the south. It identifies such land as providing major arenas for contested claims between the requirements of international firms and those of local inhabitants and businesses, entailing both threats and opportunities in terms of local economic development. Much depends on the urban governance and institutional processes surrounding the use and allocation of lan…
Development of the ICT sector and urban competitiveness
(2003). Development of the ICT sector and urban competitiveness: The case of Dubai. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 19-46
Singapore’s competitiveness as a global city
Institutions and Urban Change in a Globalising World
Modes of housing provision in developing countries
Refocusing the housing debate in developing countries from a pluralist perspective
Globalisation, Institutional Structures and Real Estate Markets in Central European Cities
This paper examines the urban development process in post-socialist cities of Budapest, Prague and Warsaw in the context of economic globalisation and societal transformation. Several factors have helped to shape the post-socialist cities of central Europe since the end of the 1980s. These include political transformation, economic change, restitution, privatisation, price liberalisation and decentralisation of local government. It is argued that…
Refocusing the housing debate in developing countries from a pluralist perspective
Singapore’s competitiveness as a global city
Globalisation, Institutional Structures and Real Estate Markets in Central European Cities
This paper examines the urban development process in post-socialist cities of Budapest, Prague and Warsaw in the context of economic globalisation and societal transformation. Several factors have helped to shape the post-socialist cities of central Europe since the end of the 1980s. These include political transformation, economic change, restitution, privatisation, price liberalisation and decentralisation of local government. It is argued that…
The Interface of Globalization and Peripheral Land in the Cities of the South
This essay examines the impact of globalization on land peripheral to large cities of the south. It identifies such land as providing major arenas for contested claims between the requirements of international firms and those of local inhabitants and businesses, entailing both threats and opportunities in terms of local economic development. Much depends on the urban governance and institutional processes surrounding the use and allocation of lan…
The Limits and Potentials of the Housing Market Enabling Paradigm
This paper examines the housing policies in China in the last 14 years in the context of the international debate on the World Bank's housing market enabling strategy to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. A review of China's urban housing outcomes reveals housing price inflation and shortage of affordable housing in the fast expanding housing market. The paper analyzes policies to increase both demand for and supply of …
Public Management of Urban Land, Enabling Markets and Low-income Housing Provision
This paper examines the first 10 years (1979—89) of the implementation of the Urban Land Act in Iran in order to revisit the debate on the capacity of market-enabling policies to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. The outcome of the Iranian experience during the study period shows that, at the very least, governments can play an important and effective role in low- and middle-income housing provision through direct prov…
Institutions and Urban Change in a Globalising World
Participatory Approaches to Land Policy Reform in Zambia
The subject of participation is now at the core of many contemporary development debates. This is promoted within the emerging context of moving away from 'government' to 'governance' as stakeholders are increasingly getting frustrated by governments' continued application of the mundane Decide, Announce, and Defend (DAD) approaches to policy making. However, despite the voluminous amount of literature on participation, there is little scholarly …
Promoting Social Sustainability of Urban Neighbourhoods
The growing significance of neighbourhoods in the urban planning discipline, alongside increasing attention to the social dimension of sustainable communities and societies, has brought to the fore the need to conceptualize socially sustainable neighbourhoods. In this article we reflect critically on the concept of socially sustainable neighbourhoods in two areas, namely definition and operationalization. We then propose a tripartite framework fo…
Modes of housing provision in developing countries
Refocusing the housing debate in developing countries from a pluralist perspective
Globalisation, Institutional Structures and Real Estate Markets in Central European Cities
This paper examines the urban development process in post-socialist cities of Budapest, Prague and Warsaw in the context of economic globalisation and societal transformation. Several factors have helped to shape the post-socialist cities of central Europe since the end of the 1980s. These include political transformation, economic change, restitution, privatisation, price liberalisation and decentralisation of local government. It is argued that…
Institutions and Urban Change in a Globalising World
Development of the ICT sector and urban competitiveness
(2003). Development of the ICT sector and urban competitiveness: The case of Dubai. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 19-46
Singapore’s competitiveness as a global city
The Interface of Globalization and Peripheral Land in the Cities of the South
This essay examines the impact of globalization on land peripheral to large cities of the south. It identifies such land as providing major arenas for contested claims between the requirements of international firms and those of local inhabitants and businesses, entailing both threats and opportunities in terms of local economic development. Much depends on the urban governance and institutional processes surrounding the use and allocation of lan…
Public Management of Urban Land, Enabling Markets and Low-income Housing Provision
This paper examines the first 10 years (1979—89) of the implementation of the Urban Land Act in Iran in order to revisit the debate on the capacity of market-enabling policies to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. The outcome of the Iranian experience during the study period shows that, at the very least, governments can play an important and effective role in low- and middle-income housing provision through direct prov…
Participatory Approaches to Land Policy Reform in Zambia
The subject of participation is now at the core of many contemporary development debates. This is promoted within the emerging context of moving away from 'government' to 'governance' as stakeholders are increasingly getting frustrated by governments' continued application of the mundane Decide, Announce, and Defend (DAD) approaches to policy making. However, despite the voluminous amount of literature on participation, there is little scholarly …
Customary Land Reform to Facilitate Private Investment in Zambia
Impacts of Privatization of Customary Land Rights in Z ambia
In its quest for development, Z ambia is pursuing a land policy that facilitates privatization of customary land. This article investigates the effects of privatization in terms of how it shapes people's behaviour and perception of private tenure and related tenure dynamics. Findings have shown that the appetite to privatize land is growing stronger in peri‐urban areas as land becomes more scarce. Furthermore, privatization of land appears to be …
The Limits and Potentials of the Housing Market Enabling Paradigm
This paper examines the housing policies in China in the last 14 years in the context of the international debate on the World Bank's housing market enabling strategy to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. A review of China's urban housing outcomes reveals housing price inflation and shortage of affordable housing in the fast expanding housing market. The paper analyzes policies to increase both demand for and supply of …
Urban sustainability indicators re-visited
This paper proposes a bespoke urban sustainability indicator framework in the context of China’s prevalent property-led urban development. Emphasising local characteristics and incorporating underlying institutions, it advocates a more nuanced, holistic and dynamic approach when addressing sustainability issues. Selection of indicators were based on extensive literature reviews and tested through an international expert survey comprising both Chi…
The triad of social sustainability
Despite recent advances in social sustainability discourse, there is a dearth of working\ndefinitions and evaluation frameworks regarding measuring social sustainability of\nneighbourhoods for research, practice, and policy purposes. Building on the qualitative metaanalysis\nof relevant resources, this paper proposes the triad of social sustainability consisting\nof three pillars of neighbourhood, neighbouring, and neighbours, as a conceptual fra…
Promoting Social Sustainability of Urban Neighbourhoods
The growing significance of neighbourhoods in the urban planning discipline, alongside increasing attention to the social dimension of sustainable communities and societies, has brought to the fore the need to conceptualize socially sustainable neighbourhoods. In this article we reflect critically on the concept of socially sustainable neighbourhoods in two areas, namely definition and operationalization. We then propose a tripartite framework fo…
Promoting active aging in Brazil
Business (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Globalization (4 works) · Housing Market and Economics (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works)