Browse by Current Cardiff authors

Guelton, S., Barbara Havel, M., Hengstermann, A., Karadimitriou, N., Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Maliene, V. and Tunaer-Vural, M. 2026. Revisiting (neo)liberalism in land policy: Trends in property rights regimes across Europe. Land Use Policy 160 , 107843. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107843

Golubchikov, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7355-0447, Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Haupt, W. 2026. Unlikely climate pioneers? Net-zero governance and innovation in left behind places. Applied Geography 186 , 103824. 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103824

Zerei, Melika and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2025. Nature-Based Solutions in urban green infrastructure: A systematic review of success factors and implementation challenges. Land 14 (4) , 818. 10.3390/land14040818

Falco, Enzo, Garda, Emanuele and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2025. Transaction costs of implementing the transfer of development rights program in Milan. Planning Practice and Research 40 (1) , pp. 103-121. 10.1080/02697459.2024.2413828 Item availability restricted.

Ghaderian, M., Hakimian, P. and Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2025. The trajectory of water sensitive urban design: integrating water management with urban planning and design. Australian Planner 61 (1) , pp. 29-42. 10.1080/07293682.2025.2526201

Derkacz, Arkadiusz J. and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2025. Beyond affordability: a multifaceted index for rental housing availability. Journal of Urban Planning and Development Item availability restricted.

Falco, Enzo, Garda, Emanuele and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2025. Transaction costs of implementing the transfer of development rights program in Milan. Presented at: The 19th Annual Conference of the Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Cardiff, UK, 3-7 March 2025.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2025. Beyond conformance: Evaluating policy side effects. Presented at: The 19th Annual Conference of the Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Cardiff, UK, 3-7 March 2025.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Claus, Tristan 2024. The 18th Annual Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Munich, Germany, 18–22 March 2024. Town Planning Review 96 (1) , pp. 103-109. 10.3828/tpr.2024.33

James, Matthew and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2024. Big costs for tiny houses: exploring the transaction costs of developing tiny houses in England. International Journal of Housing Policy 24 (3) , pp. 421-445. 10.1080/19491247.2024.2308725

Zarei, Melika, Arasteh, Mojtaba and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2024. Exploring port-city relationships: A bibliometric and content analysis. Sustainability 16 (11) , 4341. 10.3390/su16114341

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Lades, Leonhard K. 2024. Sludge and transaction costs. Behavioural Public Policy 8 (2) , pp. 327-348. 10.1017/bpp.2021.12

Guelton, Sonia, Havel, Malgorzata Barbara, Hengstermann, Andreas, Karadimitriou, Nikos, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Maliene, Vida and Tunaer, Müge 2024. Property rights regimes across Europe - A comparative survey-based overview. Presented at: 18th annual Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) conference, Munich, Germany, 18-22 March 2024. PLPR 2024 Book of Abstracts.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Wenner, Fabian 2024. Biodiversity net gain as a developer obligation. Presented at: 18th annual Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) conference, Munich, Germany, 18-22 March 2024. PLPR 2024 Book of Abstracts.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Webb, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-960X 2023. How are the UK Core Cities responding to retail-related challenges in city centres? Local Economy 38 (7) , pp. 650-671. 10.1177/02690942241258138

Bruno, Erica, Falco, Enzo, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Geneletti, Davide 2023. Integrating ecosystem services in transfer of development rights: a literature review. Land Use Policy 131 , 106694. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106694

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Webb, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-960X 2023. How are the UK Core Cities responding to retail-related challenges in city centres? Presented at: Symposium on Repurposing City Centres, London, UK, 14 July 2023.

Morgan, J and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2023. Impact of land value tax on the equity of planning outcomes. Land 12 (6) , 1152. 10.3390/land12061152

Cassarino, M., Calabrese, L., Biscaya, S. and Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2023. Gender experiences of active travel and psychological wellbeing: a scoping review of key factors and outcomes. Presented at: Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland, 8-10 November 2023.

Vejchodska, Eliska, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Hartmann, Thomas 2022. Revisiting the purpose of land policy: efficiency and equity. Journal of Planning Literature 37 (4) , pp. 575-588. 10.1177/08854122221112667

Friel, Aisling, Potts, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-4309 and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2022. Smarter cities, smarter planning: an exploration into the role of planners within the smart city movement. Allam, Zaheer, Chabaud, Didier, Gall, Catherine, Pratlong, Florent and Moreno, Carlos, eds. Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practice., Elsevier, pp. 150-166.

Aram, Farshad, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Solgi, Ebrahim 2022. Editorial: Impacts of urban green spaces on environmental perceptions and social life. Frontiers in Environmental Science , 1050597. 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1050597

Lashgari, Yasaman S. and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2022. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retail in city centres. Sustainability 14 (18) , 11463. 10.3390/su141811463

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2022. Transaction costs in planning literature: a systematic review. Journal of Planning Literature 37 (3) , pp. 403-414. 10.1177/08854122211062085

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2022. Reducing the hidden costs of building your own house in England and Wales. Presented at: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress, Tartu, Estonia, 25-29 July 2022.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2022. Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands. Presented at: International Conference on Public Value Capture across Europe ? International Experience, Warsaw, Poland, 23 June 2022.

Atri, M., Tousi, S., Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Solgi, E. 2021. The effects of thermal-spatial behaviours of land covers on urban heat islands in semi-arid climates. Sustainability 13 (24) , 13824.

Cassarino, Marica, Biscaya, Sara and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. Understanding the impact of transformations in urban planning and design on the wellbeing of vulnerable groups: a systematic review of happy places for all [Abstract]. Presented at: International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP) 2021, Siracusa, Italy, 5-8 October 2021.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Bagheri, Baran and Potts, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-4309 2021. Barriers to employing e-participation in the Iranian planning system. Cities 116 , 103281. 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103281

Cassarino, Marica, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Biscaya, Sara 2021. Envisioning happy places for all: a systematic review of the impact of transformations in the urban environment on the wellbeing of vulnerable groups. Sustainability 13 (14) , 8086. 10.3390/su13148086

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Potts, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-4309 2021. e-participation in developing countries: an Iranian case study. Presented at: 5th International Conference on Urban E-Planning, Lisbon, Portugal, 7 - 10 September 2021.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. Improving the post planning-decision process to deliver high-quality developments. Presented at: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress 2021, Virtual, 12-14 July 2021.

Sadler, Grace and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. Self‐build and custom housebuilding registers in England: a transaction‐cost and effectiveness analysis. Sustainability 13 (9) , 4912. 10.3390/su13094912

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Hartmann, Thomas and Jonkman, Arend 2021. Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands. European Planning Studies 29 (6) , pp. 1132-1150. 10.1080/09654313.2020.1817867

Gingell, Annie Hamilton and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. An analysis of self‐build and custom housebuilding in the south west of England. Urban Science 5 (1) , 9. 10.3390/urbansci5010009

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Viallon, François-Xavier 2021. Swiss land improvement syndicates: 'Impure' Coasian solutions? Planning Theory 20 (1) , pp. 44-62. 10.1177/1473095220923629

Dickinson, Daniella and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. Post planning-decision process: ensuring the delivery of high-quality developments in Cardiff. Land Use Policy 100 , 105114. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105114

Ahmadpoor, Negar and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. Realising the value of greenspace: a planners' perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic. Town Planning Review 92 (1) , pp. 49-56. 10.3828/tpr.2020.37

Sadler, Grace and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. Perceived effectiveness and transaction costs of self-build and custom housebuilding registers in England. Presented at: International Scientific and Practical Conference 2021, Kyiv, Ukraine, 20-21 May 2021.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Hartmann, Thomas and Jonkman, Arend 2021. Strategies of municipal land policies: proposing an alternative to the passive-active dichotomy. Presented at: Annual Conference of the Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights 2021 (PLPR), Virtual, 1-25 February 2021.

Kelly, J. Andrew, Clinch, J. Peter, Kelleher, Luke and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2020. Enabling a just transition: a composite indicator for assessing home heating energy-poverty risk and the impact of environmental policy measures. Energy Policy 146 , 111791. 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111791

Gao, Yuan, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Ahmadpoor, Negar 2020. Morphology of urban villages in China: a case study of Dayuan Village in Guangzhou. Urban Science 4 (2) , 23. 10.3390/urbansci4020023

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Allam, Zaheer 2020. Reducing transaction costs of tradable permit schemes using blockchain smart contracts. Growth and Change 51 (1) , pp. 302-308. 10.1111/grow.12342

Hou, Jun, Gu, Dazhi, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Chan, Edwin Hon-wan 2020. Implementation analysis of transfer of development rights for conserving privately-owned built heritage in Hong Kong: A transaction costs perspective. Growth and Change 51 (1) , pp. 530-550. 10.1111/grow.12350

Ralphs, Emma, Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Ahmadpoor, Negar 2020. Access to small airports and the impact on regional growth in the UK. Current Urban Studies 8 (1) , pp. 24-56. 10.4236/cus.2020.81002

Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Hartmann, T. 2020. Land policy in Germany: shifting from a passive to an active strategy? Presented at: The 14th annual conference of the Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, 17–21 February 2020.

Viallon, F-X. and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2019. Understanding the design and implementation of Land Improvement Syndicates (LIS): A transaction costs analysis framework. Presented at: REAL CORP 2019: 24th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society GeoMultimedia 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2-4 April 2019.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Clinch, J. Peter and O'Neill, Eoin 2019. Impact-based planning evaluation : Advancing nomative criteria for policy analysis. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 46 (3) , pp. 534-550. 10.1177/2399808317720446

Ahmadpoor, Negar and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2019. Spatial knowledge acquisition in the process of navigation: A review. Current Urban Studies 7 (1) , pp. 1-19. 10.4236/cus.2019.71001

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Clinch, J. Peter and O'Neill, Eoin 2019. An analysis of the factors influencing transaction costs in Transferable Development Rights programmes. Ecological Economics 156 , pp. 409-419. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.018

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Viallon, F-X. 2019. Swiss majority-based land improvement syndicates: A transaction-costs story. Presented at: the 4th International Conference on CHANGING CITIES: Spatial, Design, Landscape & Socio-economic Dimensions, Chania, Crete Island, Greece, 24-29 June 2019.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Viallon, F-X 2019. Land improvement syndicates: A coasian analysis of a Swiss land policy instrument. Presented at: 2019 RSA Annual Conference: Pushing Regions beyond their Borders, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5-7 June 2019.

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 and Viallon, Francois-Xavier 2019. A transaction cost analysis of Swiss land improvement syndicates. Town Planning Review 90 (5) , pp. 545-565. 10.3828/tpr.2019.34

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Clinch, J.P. and O'Neill, E 2018. Timing and distributional aspects of transaction costs in Transferable Development Rights programmes. Habitat International 75 , pp. 131-138. 10.1016/j.habitatint.2018.03.006

Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Clinch, J. Peter and O'Neill, Eoin 2018. Estimates of transaction costs in transfer of development rights programs. Journal of the American Planning Association 84 (1) , pp. 61-75. 10.1080/01944363.2017.1406816

Shahab, S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564, Clinch, J. P. and O'Neill, E 2018. Accounting for transaction costs in planning policy evaluation. Land Use Policy 70 , pp. 263-272. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.028

Shahab, S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2018. Revealing some of the hidden costs of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) programmes. Presented at: Real Estate & Land Planning (RELAND) International Conference, Mykonos, Greece, 4-8 September 2018.

Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2018. Uncovering the hidden costs of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) programmes. Presented at: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-14 July.

Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2017. Factors influencing transaction costs in TDR programs. Presented at: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 July 2017.

Shahab, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2017. Taking transaction costs into account in evaluating planning policy instruments. Presented at: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 July 2017.