Papers by Fatemeh Shahani
Although Muslim migration to Australia’s new world settler society has a long pedigree, their pop... more Although Muslim migration to Australia’s new world settler society has a long pedigree, their population and civic presence have grown in recent decades. New generations of Muslim migrants require the nation to engage with their histories and post-secular religious pluralism. Part of their history can be traced through their places of worship. This includes temporary structures along the inland telegraph route (the 1850s), the first permanent mosques in South Australia (Adelaide, 1888) and Victoria (Shepparton, 1956–60), and a variety of contemporary mosques as the population grows – indicating more settled lives. The aim was/is to provide sites of communal, spiritual, cultural, social, and educational guidance. Mosques often comprise(d) hybrid designs using a combination of local materials to fit with the existing built environment and to integrate unobtrusively. Recent examples of mosque development indicate a qualitative shift based on interacting social imaginaries of both Musli...
Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia
Ambio, 2021
Cities can set in motion sustainability transitions through experimentation and innovation. To in... more Cities can set in motion sustainability transitions through experimentation and innovation. To invest in and mainstream solutions that contribute to urban transformation agendas, urban planners needs to understand which innovations have transformational potential as well as how these innovations can accelerate sustainability transitions. In order to explore this, existing frameworks of transformative capacity provide the guidance, but they are generic, abstract, and challenging to apply for urban planning. As part of our effort to develop a more operational version of the transformative capacity framework by Wolfram (2016), we conducted a systematic scoping review of the academic literature to determine the characteristics of people-based and nature-based low-carbon innovations that constitutes their transformative capacity. After reviewing 65 records, we identified dimensions indicating each of the transformative capacity components through analysis and synthesis. Besides contributing to the science-policy interface through a knowledge synthesis on low-carbon people-based and nature-based innovations, this paper examines bridging frameworks to inform urban planners in developing practical solutions and actionable elements for low-carbon urban futures.
City developments cause to increase exploitation of natural resources more than environmental cap... more City developments cause to increase exploitation of natural resources more than environmental capacity and lead to create instability. Hence urban green spaces and elements are necessary consideration. Attitude of sustainable development emphasizes the role of green area and In order to achieve this goal, "green way" is considered as one of the most important tools for improving urban sustainable development. Green ways are the linear elements of networks; those are programmed, planned and managed for multi- dimensional purposes such as ecological, recreational, cultural, recognizable beauty and other reasons which are compatible with the concept of sustainable city. The purpose of paper will demonstrate "increasing bio-environmental quality in cities and considering sustainable development items can be achieved by green ways". In this regard, city's green space compounds are recognized as a major structural component in the process of green paths influence. ...
Spaces and flows: an international journal of urban and extraurban studies, 2018
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
World Applied Sciences Journal
City developments cause to increase exploitation of natural resources more than environmental cap... more City developments cause to increase exploitation of natural resources more than environmental capacity and lead to create instability. Hence urban green spaces and elements are necessary consideration. Attitude of sustainable development emphasizes the role of green area and In order to achieve this goal, "green way" is considered as one of the most important tools for improving urban sustainable development. Green ways are the linear elements of networks; those are programmed, planned and managed for multi-dimensional purposes such as ecological, recreational, cultural, recognizable beauty and other reasons which are compatible with the concept of sustainable city. The purpose of paper will demonstrate "increasing bio-environmental quality in cities and considering sustainable development items can be achieved by green ways". In this regard, city's green space compounds are recognized as a major structural component in the process of green paths influence. T...
The explosive growth of urban areas has brought obvious changes, not only to the physical landsca... more The explosive growth of urban areas has brought obvious changes, not only to the physical landscape, but also to people's perceptions of land and urban environment. The high concentration of population brings several problems in environmental issues and also in economic and social ones. In other words, greenways induce problems and have an impact on the parts of urban sustainability. Because of many key characteristics of greenways such as spatial formation, social interactions and multi functionality, they bring to an urban area a wide range of benefits. Urban extension and rehabilitated concern for the environment has helped create new policies and initiatives designed to improve community. The obvious goal of this research is improving quality of life in the urban area with greenways as a main factor of sustainable development in the society. This paper presents a special research on three greenways in Tehran and it is based on the human environment concept and is intended to...
Fabrications The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2020
ABSTRACT
Although Muslim migration to Australia’s new world settler
society has a long pedigree, ... more ABSTRACT
Although Muslim migration to Australia’s new world settler
society has a long pedigree, their population and civic presence have grown in recent decades. New generations of Muslim migrants require the nation to engage with their histories and post-secular religious pluralism. Part of their history can be traced through their places of worship. This
includes temporary structures along the inland telegraph
route (the 1850s), the first permanent mosques in South
Australia (Adelaide, 1888) and Victoria (Shepparton,
1956–60), and a variety of contemporary mosques as the
population grows – indicating more settled lives. The aim
was/is to provide sites of communal, spiritual, cultural, social,
and educational guidance. Mosques often comprise(d)
hybrid designs using a combination of local materials to fit
with the existing built environment and to integrate unobtrusively. Recent examples of mosque development indicate a qualitative shift based on interacting social imaginaries of both Muslims and non-Muslims, which serves two key symbolic and social functions: as architectures of self-inclusion, and as architectures of assurance to the dominant, nonMuslim public in a society that resolutely “others” the Islamic faith and Muslim people. This paper explores the complex implications of this two-fold self-inclusion/assurance discourse by way of two case studies: the Hobson’s Bay mosque in Melbourne and the proposed Bendigo
mosque.
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Papers by Fatemeh Shahani
Although Muslim migration to Australia’s new world settler
society has a long pedigree, their population and civic presence have grown in recent decades. New generations of Muslim migrants require the nation to engage with their histories and post-secular religious pluralism. Part of their history can be traced through their places of worship. This
includes temporary structures along the inland telegraph
route (the 1850s), the first permanent mosques in South
Australia (Adelaide, 1888) and Victoria (Shepparton,
1956–60), and a variety of contemporary mosques as the
population grows – indicating more settled lives. The aim
was/is to provide sites of communal, spiritual, cultural, social,
and educational guidance. Mosques often comprise(d)
hybrid designs using a combination of local materials to fit
with the existing built environment and to integrate unobtrusively. Recent examples of mosque development indicate a qualitative shift based on interacting social imaginaries of both Muslims and non-Muslims, which serves two key symbolic and social functions: as architectures of self-inclusion, and as architectures of assurance to the dominant, nonMuslim public in a society that resolutely “others” the Islamic faith and Muslim people. This paper explores the complex implications of this two-fold self-inclusion/assurance discourse by way of two case studies: the Hobson’s Bay mosque in Melbourne and the proposed Bendigo
mosque.
Although Muslim migration to Australia’s new world settler
society has a long pedigree, their population and civic presence have grown in recent decades. New generations of Muslim migrants require the nation to engage with their histories and post-secular religious pluralism. Part of their history can be traced through their places of worship. This
includes temporary structures along the inland telegraph
route (the 1850s), the first permanent mosques in South
Australia (Adelaide, 1888) and Victoria (Shepparton,
1956–60), and a variety of contemporary mosques as the
population grows – indicating more settled lives. The aim
was/is to provide sites of communal, spiritual, cultural, social,
and educational guidance. Mosques often comprise(d)
hybrid designs using a combination of local materials to fit
with the existing built environment and to integrate unobtrusively. Recent examples of mosque development indicate a qualitative shift based on interacting social imaginaries of both Muslims and non-Muslims, which serves two key symbolic and social functions: as architectures of self-inclusion, and as architectures of assurance to the dominant, nonMuslim public in a society that resolutely “others” the Islamic faith and Muslim people. This paper explores the complex implications of this two-fold self-inclusion/assurance discourse by way of two case studies: the Hobson’s Bay mosque in Melbourne and the proposed Bendigo
mosque.