Griffith University

B.Arch., M.Arch., M. Urb. Design, PhD (Urb. Planning) 

Lecturer, Griffith School of Environment

Contact Details for Dr Tooran Alizadeh

Research Expertise

• Urban Implications of Telecommunication
• Urban Design
• Strategic Planning
• Post-Disaster Planning

Current Teaching

• 2057ENV  Urban Analysis
• 7077ENV  Urban Analysis
• 1027ENV Introductory Planning Studio
  
• 7027ENV Graduate Planning Studio

Selected Publications

• Alizadeh, T. (under review). Planning Implications of Telework: A policy analysis of Sydney Metropolitan Strategy. Australian Planner.
• Alizadeh, T. (under review). Teleworkers’ characteristics in live/work communities: Lessons from the US and Australia. Urban Technology.
• Alizadeh, T. (under review). Desired Configuration of Live/Work Communities for Information Workers: A new perspective on an old debate between mixed-use small towns vs. mono-functional suburbia. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development.
• Alizadeh, T., Dodson, J., & Sipe, N. (2011). Metropolitan planning and NBN: A comparative policy analysis, Sydney vs. Brisbane. Paper to be presented at the State of Australian Cities National Conference 29 November - 2 December, Melbourne, Australia.
• Alizadeh, T. (2011). Urban implications of telework: Policy gap in Sydney metropolitan planning? Paper presented at the 3rd World Planning Schools Congress 4-8 July, Perth, Australia. Accompanied by a CD-ROM.
• Alizadeh, T. (2010). The interaction between local and regional knowledge-based development: Towards a quadruple helix model. In K. Metaxiotis, F. J. Carrillo & T. Yigitcanlar (Eds.), Knowledge-based development for cities and societies (pp. 81-98). New York: Information Science Reference.
• Alizadeh, T. (2009). Urban design in the digital age: A literature review of telework and wired communities. Journal of Urbanism, 2(3), 195-213.
• Alizadeh, T. (2009). The role of local communities: A modification for the knowledge-based regional development theory. Paper presented at the Second Knowledge Cities Summit 5-7 November, Shenzhen, China. Accompanied by a CD-ROM.
• Alizadeh, T. (2009). Towards an efficient regulatory environment for home-based telework in the digital age. Paper presented at the Housing Researchers Conference 5-7 August, Sydney, Australia. Retrieved: May 25, 2010, from  http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/cf/apnhr/papers/Attachments/Alizadeh.pdf.
• Alizadeh, T. (2009). The desired configuration of residential communities in the digital age. Paper presented at the 23rd Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning: Why can’t the future be more like the past? 15-18 July, Liverpool, UK. Abstract published in Book of Abstracts, p. 46.
• Alizadeh, T. (2008). From knowledge-based neighbourhoods to knowledge-based regional development. Paper presented at the 3rd National Conference: People, Place and Space: Rethinking Regional Policy Agenda 30 November-3 December, Adelaide, Australia: ARC Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science (ARCRNSISS). Retrieved: 10 May 2010, from  http://siss.edu.au/siss/national_conference/2008/4C_Alizadeh_Tooran_Conference-final.pdf.
  
• Alizadeh, T. (2008). Design attributes of wired communities for teleworkers. Paper presented at the Worlds of Work: Communication and Information Technologies July 31, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: CITASA Pre-Conference and Graduate Student Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
• Alizadeh, T. (2007). Towards the best pattern of urban design in the information age. Soffeh (Shahid Beheshti University Press), 15(42), 6-20. (Title translated from Persian)