Urban Technology

I am an interdisciplinary scholar and a certified planner working at the intersection of urban geography, urban design, and planning. My research integrates quantitative and qualitative social science methods with spatial analysis. I draw on frameworks from social-ecological resilience, climate change adaptation, hazard risk reduction, disaster recovery, sustainable development, and environmental governance to address pressing challenges in resilience. In addition to my training in urban design methods, such as participatory design, placemaking, smart urbanism, and resilient design, and social science methods including interviews, surveys, and content analysis, I bring extensive expertise in spatial analysis, GIS, and climatic modeling. I have advanced training in Python and R for spatial data analysis and employ environmental modeling tools like Envi-met to simulate the impact of design configurations on atmospheric conditions.

Illustrative Publication:

  1. Attarhay Tehrani A, Sobhaninia S, Nikookar N, Levinson R, Sailor D, Amaripadath D (2025). Data-driven Approach to Estimate Urban Heat Island Impacts on Building Energy Consumption. Energy 316

  2. Attarhay Tehrani, A., O. Veisi, K. kiac, Y. Delavard, S. Bahramie, S. Sobhaninia, A. Mehan (2024). “Predicting Urban Heat Island in European Cities: a Comparative Study of GRU, DNN, and ANN Models Using Urban Morphological Variables”. Urban Climate, 56