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Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community book cover

1st Edition

Beyond Smart Housing Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community

By Atefeh Sedaghati, Mostafa Behzadfar Copyright 2027
198 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community introduces a holistic understanding of smart living that values both efficiency and empathy, repositioning the idea of smart housing within a human-centered, culturally grounded, and socially aware framework. In recent decades, the notion of “smart housing” has evolved into a dominant paradigm within architecture, planning, and... Read more

1. Intelligence and Its Role in Smart Housing.  2. Discovering Smart Housing.  3. Blending Smart Technology with Cultural Preferences.  4. Applying Woonerf Principles to Smart Street Design: A Case Study in Bojnord, Iran.  5. Epilogue - Concluding Comments.

Biography

Atefeh Sedaghati is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bojnord, Iran. She earned her Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Islamic Art University of Tabriz and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). Her research focuses on smart housing and its implications for sustainable urban planning, emphasizing social interactions within neighborhoods. She also specializes in housing studies and housing value analysis, applying hedonic pricing and empirical model selection methods to investigate urban market dynamics and inform development strategies.

Mostafa Behzadfar is a Professor in the Urban Planning Department at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran. His main research interests include place-making dimensions and qualities, urban planning and technology, smart cities, and Iranian-Islamic implications in urban design. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Design from the University of Sydney, Australia, with a dissertation on environmentally responsive streets and urban design in Iran. He is also the head of the Smart City Research Lab at IUST.

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