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Commentary: Beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation? (2022)
Journal Article
Araabi, H. F. (in press). Commentary: Beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation?. URBAN DESIGN International, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-022-00202-z

In this commentary, I respond to Cozzolino’s (URBAN Des Int 27(1):43–52, 2022) recent paper titled ‘On the spontaneous beauty of cities: neither design nor chaos’ published in URBAN DESIGN International. In the last few years, the concept of beauty h... Read More about Commentary: Beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation?.

On beauty (2022)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H., Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2022). On beauty. Planning Theory and Practice, 23(4), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2022.2113613

“Beauty,” a term that almost defies definition, can be highly emotive in its use: more emotive, we posit, than many other commonplace terms used to frame thinking about the future of space and place. Thus, the relationship between beauty, decision ma... Read More about On beauty.

Public places urban spaces: the dimensions of urban design: By Matthew Carmona, New York, NY, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2021, 690 pp., GBP £39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781138067783 (2022)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H. (2022). Public places urban spaces: the dimensions of urban design: By Matthew Carmona, New York, NY, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2021, 690 pp., GBP £39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781138067783. Journal of Urban Design, 27(5), 605-607. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2075650

Exploring what constitutes ‘urban design’ has been at the heart of all three editions of Public Places Urban Spaces (2003, 2011, and 2021), each of which was published at the beginning of a new decade. The act of mapping knowledge inevitably engages... Read More about Public places urban spaces: the dimensions of urban design: By Matthew Carmona, New York, NY, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2021, 690 pp., GBP £39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781138067783.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., Croft, N., McClymont, K., Sheppard, A., & Foroughmand-Araabi, H. (2021). The whittling away of wonderful ideas. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, July / August 2021, 242-248

Towards a Deleuzoguattarian methodology for urban design (2018)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H., & McDonald, A. (2019). Towards a Deleuzoguattarian methodology for urban design. Journal of Urbanism, 12(2), 172-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2018.1552883

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (Deleuzoguattarian) is now widely thought to be apropos for today’s world. This paper proposes Deleuzoguattarian philosophy as... Read More about Towards a Deleuzoguattarian methodology for urban design.

Minding the gap: The professionals' view on the interaction between urban design theory and practice (2018)
Journal Article
Araabi, H. F. (2018). Minding the gap: The professionals' view on the interaction between urban design theory and practice. Town Planning Review, 89(3), 209-228. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2018.14

© 2018 Liverpool University Press. All rights reserved. In order to better understand the relationship between the theory and the actual practice of urban design, this paper identifies and analyses the key factors that are involved in generating new... Read More about Minding the gap: The professionals' view on the interaction between urban design theory and practice.

Place Value Wiki (2018)
Digital Artefact
Carmona, M., Foroughmand Araabi, H., & Roberts, J. (2018). Place Value Wiki

Place Value Wiki brings together in a ‘raw’ form the range of rigorous research evidence that links the ‘quality’ and design of ‘place’ with the value added in health, social, economic and environmental terms. As a wiki it is available to all rese... Read More about Place Value Wiki.

Assessing the effective resources of urban designing in Iran, based on the localization approach (2017)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H., Khabazi, M., & Foroughmand Araabi, H. (2017). Assessing the effective resources of urban designing in Iran, based on the localization approach

Urban design, like any other branch of the social sciences and built-environment studies, has developed in relation with the contexts in which it has emerged. Built environments in Iran have been constructed in a different way compared to their Europ... Read More about Assessing the effective resources of urban designing in Iran, based on the localization approach.

Schools and skills of critical thinking for urban design (2017)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H. (2018). Schools and skills of critical thinking for urban design. Journal of Urban Design, 23(5), 763-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2017.1369874

© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper explores possible ways in which urban design can engage with critical thinking and critical theory. After a brief explanation of the terms, with particular attention t... Read More about Schools and skills of critical thinking for urban design.