Shahab Valaei Sharif

PhD Candidate | Planning
Shahab Valaei Sharif

Prior Degrees

Master of Science, Construction Engineering and Management, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2021
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2017

Supervisor

Dr. Dawn Parker

Contact information

svalaeis@uwaterloo.ca

Planning Interest

  • Infrastructure systems
  • Land and housing markets
  • Healthy and smart cities

Research Topic

Exploring the barriers to the lack of supply of missing middle housing

Presentations/Publications/Professional Experience

  • Parker, D. C., Valaei Sharif, S., Webber, K. (2023). Why did the "Missing Middle" miss the train? An actors-in-systems exploration of barriers to intensified family housing in Waterloo Region, Canada. Land. 12(2):434. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020434

  • Kashani, H., Valaei Sharif, S., Hosseini, S., Hekmatian, M.A. (2022). Dynamical Modeling of Outbreak and Control of Pandemics: Assessing the Resilience of Healthcare Infrastructure Under Mitigation Policies. In: Adibi, S., Rajabifard, A., Shariful Islam, S.M., Ahmadvand, A. (eds) The Science behind the COVID Pandemic and Healthcare Technology Solutions. Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10031-4_16

  • Valaei Sharif, S., Habibi Moshfegh, P., Morshedi, M., Kashani, H. (2022). Modeling the Impact of Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic: A System Dynamics Approach. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 82, 103327, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103327

  • Parker. D. C., Webber, K. W., & Valaei Sharif, S. (2022, November 3). Why did the “Missing Middle” miss the train? Exploring barriers to intensified family housing in Waterloo Region, Canada. Proceedings of the 2022 American Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Toronto, Canada.

  • Parker. D. C., Valaei Sharif, S., Waddel, P., & Tsiakopoulis, T. (2022, September 14). Incorporating price expectations into agent-based representations of land developer decision models. Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference: Promoting Social Simulation and Computational Social Science, Milan, Italy.