Saeideh Sobhaninia
Tempe Campus
Saeideh Sobhaninia, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University working on urban climate resilience. She works on a large interdisciplinary team from across Arizona on the US Department of Energy-funded Southwest Urban Integrated Field Laboratory.
Her research primarily revolves around climate resilience, community resilience, disaster recovery, environmental justice, and placemaking. She has taught previously at Clemson University, Shahab Danesh University, and Qom Technical College at graduate and undergraduate levels in City Planning and Design, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture departments. She also has a demonstrated history of working in the urban planning, urban design, and architecture industries. She worked as the project manager for the revitalization of buyout floodplain areas and turning them into community spaces.
Saida has an interdisciplinary education background, which has helped her to better work, teach, and conduct research in interdisciplinary projects. She pursued her master's degree in GIS from the University of California Los Angeles and in Urban Design at Shahid Beheshti University. She also got her bachelor’s in Architecture.
2019 - 2023 Ph.D. in Planning, Design, and the Built Environment, Clemson University
2023 - 2024 Master of Applied Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies, University of California Los Angeles
2013 - 2016 Master of Arts in Urban Design, Shahid Beheshti University
2009 - 2013 Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Engineering, Shariaty Technical and Vocational University
Sobhaninia, S. (2023). “Does Social Cohesion Accelerate the Recovery Rate in Communities Impacted by Environmental Disasters in Puerto Rico? An Analysis of a Community Survey”. Environmental Advances, 13, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2023.100400
Sobhaninia, S., M. Amirzadeh, M. Lauria, and A. Sharifi (2023). “The relationship between place identity and community resilience: evidence from local communities in Isfahan, Iran,” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 90. 103675, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103675
Sobhaninia, S., S. Buckman, and J. Schupbach (2023). “The need for creative placemaking in new development areas: An analysis of the new real estate development in Qom, Iran,” International Journal of Real Estate Studies, 17(1), 24-39. https://doi.org/10.11113/intrest.v17n1.244
Amirzadeh, M., S. Sobhaninia, S. Buckman, A. Sharifi (2023). “Towards building resilient cities to pandemics: A review of COVID-19 literature”, Sustainable Cities and Societies, 89, 104326, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104326
Sobhaninia, S. and S.T. Buckman (2022). “Revisiting and adapting the Kate-Pijawka disaster recovery model: a reconfigured emphasis on anticipation, equity, and resilience,” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102738
Amirzadeh, M., S. Sobhaninia, and A. Sharifi (2022). “Urban Resilience: A vague or an evolutionary concept?”, Sustainable Cities and Societies, 81 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103853
Buckman, S. and S. Sobhaninia (2022). “The impact of sea-level flooding on the real estate development community in Charleston, SC: Results of a ULI member survey,” Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, 14(1): 4-20 https://doi.org/10.1080/19498276.2022.2095699
Sobhaninia, S. (2022). “Creative placemaking in residential areas: A case study of Greenville, SC,” Journal of Iranian Association of Urban Designers, Vol. 9. In Persian
Sobhaninia, S. (2021). “Reviewing urban planning code of conducts and ethics,” Journal of Iranian Association of Urban Designers, Vol. 7. In Persian
Sobhaninia, S. (2021). “Analyzing the urban planning teaching methodology,” Journal of Iranian Association of Urban Designers, Vol. 6: 74-77, www.luda.org In Persian.
Sobhaninia, S. (2020). “Neighborhood perception among students and its impact on social cohesion in communities,” Journal of Iranian Association of Urban Designers, Vol. 4: 88-90. In Persian
Sobhaninia, S. (2020). “Comparing the quality of urban design in Vali Asr Street in the City of Qom in Iran to Scharlett Street in Greenville, SC, USA,” Journal of Iranian Association of Urban Designers, Vol. 3: 82-88. In Persian