Dr Sanaz Alian

Biography

Sanaz did her first degree in urban development engineering. She then came to UNE to do a master’s degree in urban and regional planning followed by a PhD in urban planning and design. Sanaz is interested to understand ways in which built form influences experiences and perceptions of ethnic diversity as well as the lives of immigrants when they move to Australia. Her PhD research was entitled 'Radical Alterity, Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Spatial Planning and Super Diversity in Bankstown, Sydney'. Sanaz has been teaching at UNE since 2014. She is passionate about the community and has volunteered for numerous organisations since arriving in Armidale. She describes herself as a female, immigrant, community-minded planner.

Qualifications

BUDE (IAU), MURP (UNE), PhD (UNE)

Teaching Areas

GEPL122: Introduction to Plan Making

GEPL359: Introduction to Architectural Design

GEPL361: Community Planning and Participation

GEPL302/402/502: Architecture and Urban Design

Research Supervision Experience

Supervision areas

• Urban Design
• Urban Social Theory
• Planning for Multiculturalism
• Urban Sociology
• Theories of Place and Space
• Retail Planning

Publications

Journal Articles

Alian, S., & Wood, S. (2021). What difference does ‘difference’ make? Identity, difference and the multicultural city. Planning Theory, 20 (4), 286–302.

Alian, S., & Wood, S. (2021). Implosive Multiculturalism: Staging of the Community in Bankstown, Sydney. Journal of Space and Culture, 24 (4), 530–549.

Alian, S., & Wood, S. (2019). Stranger adaptations: public/private interfaces, adaptations, and ethnic diversity in Bankstown, Sydney. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 12 (1), 83-102.

Conference Papers

Alian, S. (2022, July). Ambivalence, built form and multicultural spaces: The case of Bankstown. Fay Gale Memorial Lecture presenter at Institute of Australian Geographers Inc. Conference 2022, University of New England, Armidale, July 2022.

Alian, S., Parkes, Mitch., & Warburton, Steven. (2022, June). Moving fully online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: The good, the bad, and the better. HERDSA 2022, Melbourne, Australia.

Alian, S. (2019, January). What is an ‘Ethnic’ Street? Land-use and Built-form Characteristics of Super-diverse Shopping Streets around Bankstown, Sydney. UNE PG Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Alian, S., & Wood, S. (2018, September). Fragmented forms, fragmented identities: Seduction and the death of identity in multicultural Bankstown, Sydney. 2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies. School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Alian, S., & Wood, S. (2017, July). What is an ‘Ethnic’ Street? Land- Use and Built-Form Characteristic of Super-Diverse Shopping Street in Bankstown, Sydney. Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), Lisbon, Portugal.

Alian, S. (2017, January). Cultural diversity and consumption spaces in and about Bankstown, Sydney. UNE PG Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Alian, S., & Wood, S. (2015, December). Stranger Adaptations: Cultural Diversity and Public/private interface adaptations in Bankstown, Sydney. State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC). Gold Coast, Australia.

Seminar

Alian, S. (2014, May). Consuming disadvantage. Town centre viability and vitality seminar Planning Institute Australia, University of New England, Australia.

Memberships

Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Member

Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Member

External Profiles

• ResearchGate Profile
• LinkedIn Profile