Babak Manouchehrifar

Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism & Humanities | Stewart Fellow at Humanities Council | PhD @MITdusp | Religion, Secularism, Power & Place

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@FizzahSajjad @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you, Fizzah. Hope all is well and my best wishes.

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Truly honored & humbled to receive the ACSP/GPEIG Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning. Grateful to my amazing mentors, colleagues & friends who supported me along the way. Thank you to @MITdusp for highlight and Award Committee @The_ACSP/@GpeigAcsp

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How can urban planners engage with faith communities to build more inclusive cities? #dusp alum Babak Manouchehrifar's (PhD ‘22, MCP ‘15) dissertation, named @The_ACSP's 2023 Gill-Chin Lim Best Dissertation on International Planning, explores.

More: https://t.co/9sy2lC5rbp

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@amaseme_net @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you, Toni. Hope you and the family are doing well, enjoying diss writing while also parenting…

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@asmaaeg @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you. Asmaa. Hope all is well and we get to meet up soon again.

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@NazaninGhaffari @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you, Nazanin. Hope all is well and congrats on your new position. Well-deserved!

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@nigreaux @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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@kmitts @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you, Kate. Hope to see soon.

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@bhbradlow @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you, Ben. Absolutely. Let’s catch up soon before it gets hectic.

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@justkevworks @MITdusp @The_ACSP @GpeigAcsp Thank you, Kevin. The feeling is mutual. Miss you and wish you all the best.

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@bhbradlow a first-rate intelligence extraordinaire…

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I explore how Sanyal’s research and pedagogy question binary thinking by (1) cultivating doubt and hope as a learning habit, (2) advocating for gradual reform as a force for progressive social change. His vital role @GpeigAcsp has inspired many planners globally @gpean_planning.

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Thrilled to share my essay @JPER7 honoring the work of @The_ACSP Distinguished Educator: Bish Sanyal @MITdusp. He's the 1st recipient of this Award who came to the US as an int'l student @GPEIG. See his unconventional views on social change & planning educ:https://t.co/HfnUL9G9KD

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@justkevworks Thank you, Kevin! Appreciate your kind words & incredible reference and am so glad you liked the paper. Learned much from you. The little planner on our shoulders doesn’t allow us to comprise on the normative dimensions 😁

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Very excited to have a new publication out in Planning Theory.

Thinking Sideways: A Plea for “Weak Theory”

Please DM or email me ([email protected]) if you don't have access to it. The following is a thread summarizing the article: https://t.co/sc8FFdK6sr

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@devin_mb Thank you, devin. Hope I haven’t done that “strongly”! 🤓

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@AhhReeUhh Thank you, Aria! I’m so glad you found it useful. Hope all is well.

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17. I hope this thread has sparked your interest in weak theory and its implications for planning. You can read the full paper here: https://t.co/qAXSQM85fU. Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts. #weaktheory #planningtheory

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16. I end with bell hook’s words: theory should serve as a “healing, liberatory function” to see the world differently, not as an exclusionary tool “to impose standards of critical evaluation that would be used to define what is theoretical and what is not.”