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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.