City Plus

Staff

Scientific Committee (Candidates)

1- Dr. Homeira Shayesteh

Why: 

• Architect and Urban Designer
• Prior to that, I worked as a registered architect and project manager on a variety of projects in the Middle East such as residential, heritage and retail. I have extensive industry experience in applied research and city design policy and practice in the built environment in the UK, Europe, and the Middle East.  My academic and professional consultancy experience has focused on bringing together theory and practice in evidence-informed approach in architectural and urban design.

2- Dr. Razieh Zandieh

Why: 

• Architect and Urban Designer
• She completed her Ph.D. research on ‘Healthy urban planning: the influence of the built environment on older adults’ outdoor walking’ in 2017.
• Member of Urban Design Group (UDG);
• Member of Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA);
• Member of Manchester Urban Institute (MUI);
• Member of Manchester Environmental Research Institute (MERI);
• Member of Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA).

Research interests

Healthy urban planning and design; 

• Walkability and sustainability;
• Social and spatial inequalities;
• Age-friendly city.

3- Prof. Fran Tonkiss

Why:

• Sociologist
• Her research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban development and design, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organization of urban space.  
• Best Connection to the LSE (Deputy Head of Department)

4- Julia King

Why:

• Architect and Urban Designer
• Incrementalism
• Participatory design 
• Effects of government policies on cities
• Density and city
• Experiences and knowledge on the global south cities 

5- Dr. Savvas Verdis

Why:

• Economist
• economic development; infrastructure finance; measuring the city economy

6- Dr Katayoun Karampour

Why:

• Urban Planner 
• Teaching Fellow at UCL
• Thesis title: Municipal revenues and urban change - a case study of Tehran

8- Dr. Azadeh Mashayekhi

Why:

• Architect and Urban Designer
• My research focuses on the political economy of urban change and explores the mechanisms by which urban change takes place in cities of the global south. My research interests focus on a postcolonial critique of urban studies and especially on political and institutional dynamics of city-making practices in the context of the Global South, in particular Middle Eastern cities. My current research project examines the link between urban development and planning practices and broader structures of political economy in Middle Eastern cities, in particular Tehran.

9-Prof: Richard Sennett

Why:

• Sociologist
• Healthy city, Democracy, Public Spaces and Communication

10- Dr. Mahshid Motamed

Why:

• Architect
• Lifestyle and design, Journalist, urban and architectural reviewer
• Since 2015, she has been working on her dissertation, entitled: Architectural Taste among Professional and non-Professional Societies”.
• Her primary teaching and research interests include the History of Architecture and study of Social Effects of public architecture, developing projects with the capacity to link spatial networks on an urban designing scale and recognizing social fundamental patterns of composition architecture. 

11- Prof Ali Parsa

Why:

• Urban Planner
• Worked as a consultant in the Middle East (Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia), Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Japan) and Europe (the UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine).
• Course development specializing in comparative real estate investment and development, sustainability and urban form
• Course Director MSc Estate Management
• Independent researcher
• The organizer of Executive Training for public and private organizations in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe
• Specialties: International real estate markets
• Emerging real estate markets in the Middle East and Asia
• Frontier real estate markets in Africa
• Housing policy
• Urban regeneration
• Islamic compliant real estate investment 

12-Nader Tehrani

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