User:Mehran madani

Mehran Madani is a Doctor of Design, whose recent research deals with some contemporary phenomena of “Social Conurbation”, “Constructed Social Environment”, “Drive-thru Communities”, “Social Transaction Vs, Social Interaction”, “Public Place Vs Public Space”, “Community Vs Neighborhood”, “Therapy by Design Thinking and Creativity Reclamation”, and new definition of “the Built Environment” as manmade physical environment plus manmade social environment.

Social Conurbation: The term "conurbation" was coined in 1915 by Patrick Geddes in his book Cities In Evolution (as cited in Mumford, 1986). By this term, he drew attention to the ability of the new technology to allow the cities to spread and agglomerate together. Relatively, Mehran Madani coined the term "Social Conurbation" which refers to a phenomenon, occurring in the juncture of suburban communities' social geography in metropolitan area through a shift of geographical population from urban area to the suburb. So, by the growth and expansion of the physical infrastructures and change in spatial geography, the socio-behavioral settings and social network of those communities are also merged to form a continuous social geography. In most cases, social conurbation is a polycentric social networks, in which infrastructure has been developed and has the capability to link suburban communities, sprawled neighborhood public life, or dispersed shopping centers social activities.

Drive-thru Communities: Mehran's claim is grounded on the design of a constructed urban community (Urban Sprawl), which he coined that Drive-Thru community (based on expansion of physical organization of neighborhoods, and greater reliance on vehicles) to study its desired goals and find out how it functions in the urban context related to urban planning major concepts. Accordingly, he wants to understand that how the fulfillment of purpose or adaptation to the desired goals of suburbanization involves a relation among three terms of science of design as: the purpose or goal, the character of the artifact, and the environment in which the artifact performs. His study explores the drive-thru community (urban Sprawl) as a phenomenon that has been occurred in contemporary urban design, and city planning; to find out the desired aims behind this theory and examine the outcomes of this artificial construct, relevant to understanding of design of artificial. Therefore, rather than going into the debate on whether sprawl is good or bad, this study focuses on how sprawl is functioning based on its initial concepts and descriptive goals.