Dr Elham Bahmanteymouri
Bachelor of Economics, Master of Urban and Regional Planning and Design, PhD in Planning
Biography
Elham Bahmanteymouri is a lecturer in urban planning at the University of Auckland. She teaches Urban Land Economics, Urban Economic Development and Urban Economics at the School of Architecture and Planning. Elham has a bachelor degree in Economics and also a master degree in Urban and Regional Planning and Design. She worked as a senior planner in different public and private sectors including the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of Iran. She has particular expertise in the provision of urban growth management policies and the economic assessment of the housing and urban development policies, investigating the causes and consequences of the spatial inequality, housing unaffordability, and urban poverty, supervising the preparation, implementation, and evaluation of urban plans. In addition, the focus of her research is on Urban Critical Theories, Economics of Incomplete Markets, Urban Economics, The Experience Economy, Sharing and Smart Economy, as well as Behavioural Economics from a Lacanian post-Marxist approach.
Research | Current
Land Economics, Land-use Planning, Housing Policies, Urban Growth Management Policies
Planning Theory and Political Economy of Space
Methodology of Research and Research Design in Urban and Regional Planning
Urban and Regional Economics
Economics of Incomplete Markets
Digital and Platforms Economy
Sharing Economy
Pedagogy of Planning Discipline
Teaching | Current
URBPLAN 102 - Urban Planning Economic
URBPLAN 304 - Urban Land Economics
URBPLAN 707 - Urban Economic Development
Postgraduate supervision
I supervise PhD Thesis and Master of Planning Thesis as well as Bachelor of Urban Planning (Honours) Dissertation in my area of expertise.
Areas of expertise
Urban Land Economics
Urban Economics
Urban Growth Management and Housing Policies
Planning Theory
Urban Critical Thinking
Logic-Based Analysis of Planning Practices
Political Economy of Space
Economics of Incomplete Markets
The Experience Economy
Smart and digital Economy
Sharing and Platform Economy
Pedagogy of Planning Discipline
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Bahmanteymouri, E., & Haghighi, F. (2020). Airbnb as an ephemeral space: Towards an analysis of a digital heterotopia. In S. Ferdinand, I. Souch, D. Wesselman (Eds.) Heterotopia and globalisation in the twenty-first century. London, UK: Routledge. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Farzaneh Haghighi - Bahmanteymouri, E. (2019). Planning a way out of housing unaffordability. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/02/06/429797/planning-a-way-out-of-housing-unaffordability. Related URL.
- Bahmanteymouri, E., & Mohammadzadeh, M. (2018). Claiming the right to the city: Informal urbanisation in the holy city of Mashhad. In R. Rocco, J. van Ballegooijen (Eds.) The Routledge handbook on informal urbanization. New York, NY, USA: Routledge. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Mohsen Mohammadzadeh - Bahmanteymouri, E. (2018). The Neoliberal Fantasy. Paper presented at The Return of Economic Planning, Auckland, New Zealand. 21 February - 23 February 2018.
- Bahmanteymouri, E. (2018). The circuits of surplus value as the financing mechanism of urban development in Ellenbrook. Paper presented at Housing Theory Symposium, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong. 5 February - 6 February 2018. The Financialisation of Housing. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/41521 - Bahmanteymouri, E. (2017). A logic-based investigation of neoliberalised planning education. Paper presented at Educating Architects and Planners, 1917-2017: School of Architecture and Planning Centenary 2017. 8 September - 9 September 2017.
- Bahmanteymouri, E. (2017). Essex School of Discourse Analysis: A logic-based approach to ontological investigation of planning. Paper presented at AESOP Annual Congress: Lisbon 2017: Spaces of dialog for places of dignity: Fostering the European dimension of planning, Lisbon, Portugal. 11 July - 14 July 2017. Spaces of dialog for places of dignity: Fostering the European dimension of planning: Book of proceedings.
- Bahmanteymouri, E. (2017). More land and houses means fewer affordable properties, academic says. Stuff.co.nz Related URL.
Contact details
Primary office location
ARCHITECTURE - WEST - Bldg 421W
Level 4, Room 408
26 SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND CENTRAL
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand