Dr. Ardeshir Anjomani
Ardeshir (Ard) Anjomani is a professor of City and Regional Planning at the School of Urban and Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Anjomani has more than thirty years of academic and professional experience in different aspects of City planning and urban and regional development. His areas of expertise include analysis of urban development, land-use planning and urban design, environmental and land suitability analysis using GIS technology, transportation planning and community and economic development. His publications have appeared in International Journal of Humanities, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Architecture and planning Research, Journal of Planning Education and Research and Journal of Urban Affairs among others. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS) and he has served on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 1983-present, Computer, Environment and Urban Systems, 1988-1992, and International Journal of Sustainable Society (IJSSoc), 2007-present.
Dr. Anjomani presently is serving as the Chair of Ph.D. Program in Urban Planning & Public Policy and also Master's in City & Regional Planning program. He also is the Coordinator for the GIS Certificate Program (2000-present) and has been Coordinator and Graduate Advisor for the City and Regional Planning Program (1985-1990). He has been the University of Texas at Arlington nominee for the State of Texas Piper Professorship Award for outstanding scholarly and academic achievement, April 2000. He has an M.Arch. degree from the University of Tehran, an M.Pl. and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Anjomani teaches graduate courses in urban structure and city planning, transportation planning and modeling, research and planning methods, and GIS and environmental land use analysis. For more than two decades his research concentrations have been on study and forecasting of metropolitan growth and urban form, and land-use planning through applications of planning methods and GIS technology. He has received and completed several funded research and presently is working on a metropolitan environmental/land use/transportation modeling research funded by the Texas Department of Transportation. He has also been consultant in several projects dealing with comprehensive land-use/thoroughfare planning, development planning, urban design, corridor studies, downtown development studies and economic development. Dr. Anjomani is a specialist in the various aspects of city and regional planning and the related research and analysis. He combines experience in professional planning and design with academic and applied research and teaching experience. The community related projects that have been developed under his direction have been seven times recipient of American Planning Association Texas Chapter Student Planning Award..
