Prof. Mahyar Arefi

School of Planning

University of Cincinnati, USA

Associate Professor

Email: mahyar.arefi@uc.edu

Qualifications

1999 Ph.D., Planning, University of Southern California

1992 M.UD., Master of Urban Design, Tehran University

1987 M.Arch., Master of Architecture, Tehran University

Publications (selected)

1. Arefi, Mahyar.2013.“Deconstructing Placemaking,” Routledge,Forthcoming.
2. Arefi, Mahyar.2013. “Towards a Conceptual Framework for Urban Management: The Iranian Experience,” City, Culture and Society, Forthcoming.
3. Zamani, B. and M. Arefi.2013.“Iranian New Towns and their Urban Management Issues: a critical review of influential actors and factors,” Cities 30: 105-112.
4. Arefi, Mahyar.2011. “Design for Resilient Cities: Reflections from an Urban Design Studio,” in Banerjee and Loukaitou-Sideris (Eds),Companion to Urban Design, pp. 674-686. Routledge.
5. Arefi, Mahyar and AmirsasanHadian.2013. The Utility of Structural Engineering Concepts in Architectural Design Thinking: The Iranian Experience, International Journal of Architectural Research,Forthcoming.
6. Arefi, Mahyar.2011. “Rethinking the Local Knowledge Approach to Placemaking: Lessons from Turkey,” Open House International 36 (2): 97-107.
7. Arefi, Mahyar.2011. “Order in Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Pinar, Istanbul,” Built Environment,37 (1): 42-56.
8. Arefi, Mahyar.2008. “Asset-based Approaches to Community Development,” UN-HABITAT
9. Arefi Mahyar and Menelaos. Triantafillou. 2005. “Reflections on the Pedagogy of Place in Planning and Urban Design,”Journal of Planning Education and Research25 (1): 75-88.
10. Arefi, Mahyar.2004. “The Pedagogy of the American City: Revisiting the Concepts of place,
    Non-place and Placelessness,” Urban Design International 9 (3): 103-119.
11. Arefi, Mahyar. 2004. “An Asset-Based Approach to Policymaking: Revisiting the History of Urban Planning and Neighborhood Change in Cincinnati’s West End,” Cities 21 (6): 491-500.
12. Arefi, Mahyar. 2004. “Neighborhood Jump-Starting: Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative,”Cityscape7 (1), 5-22
13. Arefi Mahyar. & William Meyers.2003. “What’s Public about Public Space: A Case Study of Vizag, India,”Cities20 (5): 331-339.
14. Russell, Robert and Mahyar Arefi.2003. “Helping to Transform Community Identity with Public Art: An Asset-Based Strategy for Healing and Renewal of Marginalized Neighborhoods,”Chiang Mai University Journal2 (1), 61-74.
15. Arefi, Mahyar.2003. “Revisiting the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI): Lessons for Planners,”Journal of Planning Education and Research22 (4), 384-399.
16. Arefi, Mahyar. 2002.“Jump-Starting Main Street: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI),”Town Planning Review73 (1), 83-110.
17. Arefi, Mahyar.1999.“‘Non-Place’ and ‘Placelessness’ as Narratives of Loss: Rethinking the Notion of ‘Place,’”Journal of Urban Design4 (2), 175-194.

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