博客來M. Reza Shirazi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), UC Berkeley, and Senior Research Fellow at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research and teaching interests lie in the field of urban justice, discourse studies, neighbourhood development, citizen participation, phenomenology of the built environment, sociocultural sustainability, and architectural and urban transformation in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries. Reza’s recent books include: Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Iran: Tradition, Modernity, and the Production of ’Space-In- Between’ (Springer, 2018), Citizens’ Participation in Urban Planning and Development in Iran; Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge, 2017); and Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture: Phenomenal Phenomenology (Routledge, 2014).
Ramin Keivani is Professor of International Land Policy and Urban Development and Research Lead at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University. He is an urbanist with a particular research interest in low-income and affordable housing policy, urban social sustainability, and the impact of land and property markets on urban development and urban equity in both developed and transition economies. He has worked on projects across the globe including UK, central/eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, Brazil, China and Asia Pacific, and southern Africa. He is the founding and managing editor of the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development.
