Our current research looks at urban regeneration in different settings, including cities stressed by climate change or natural and manmade disasters. We are also studying how to make urban morphology and its offshoots, urban acupuncture and tactical urbanism, actionable in urban regeneration using artificial intelligence. (Our review article on this topic was published in the journal Built Form in May 2025).

Collaborators: Elham K. Hassani, Ph.D., an expert in resilient urban regeneration in modern, historic, traditional, and mixed contexts, based at Sapienza University of Rome, and an Associate Editor of Built Form, a new international journal on urban regeneration; Rockne S. Hanish, M.Arch. a Studio Instructor at Arizona State University and a practicing designer-planner in Phoenix; and Mohammad Bakhshandeh, a Ph.D. candidate at Florida Institute of Technology focused on predicting the risk of catastrophic events and local vulnerability to their impacts.