Mohammad Hamed Abdi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Hamed obtained his MA (2011-2013) from the University of Kurdistan, Iran, and received his doctorate in Sustainability and Urban Regeneration (2021) from the Madrid School of Architecture (UPM), Spain, by which he contributed to developing the TOD planning and design concept in such developing countries as Iran. Before his current research stay, he was an assistant professor of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Bojnord, Iran. His research areas of interest include walkability and public space, active movement, and sustainable neighbourhood planning and design. Hamed currently researches how people perceive the 15-minute neighbourhoods globally by which public perception across developed and developing worlds is investigated.
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Favorite (place in the) city
Not physically, but socially! A favourite place for me is where people buy and sell, meet, eat, play, exercise, grow, plant, innovate, etc., where public outdoor living is in action. That might touch one's soul everywhere: Medieval European centres, fashionable Asian or American high streets, historic places, Middle Eastern Bazaars, etc., as in the echoed sentiment of William Shakespeare: "What is the city but the people"