Journal Paper

1. "Developing a Methodology for Identifying Urban Neighborhoods with Severe Housing Deprivation in Iran"
   Esfandyar Zebardast, Hamed Mazaheriyan, Mehrdad Rahmani, Mohammad-Javad Nouri
   SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH, Vol. 172, No 1, pp.29-58, 2024
2. "Multi-Hazard Based Land Use Planning in Isolated Area; Learning from the Experience of Pul-e-Khumri City, Afghanistan"
   saeede alikaii, Mehrdad Rahmani, Fatemeh Jamalabadi, Mehmet Emin Akdogan, Sarasadat Khoshnevis
   Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol. 13, No 99, 2023
3. "Land Use Suitability Assessment for Economic Development at the Provincial Level: The Case Study of Yazd Province, Iran"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, Aynaz Lotfata, Esfandyar Zebardast, Saeed Rastegar, Thomas W. Sanchez, Babak Aminzadeh Goharrizi, Sina Landi
   Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol. 1, No 78, 2022
4. "Resilience assessment of health-care facilities within urban context: learning from a non-profit hospital in Tehran, Iran"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, Aynaz Lotfata, Sarasadat Khoshnevis, Komar Javanmardi, Mehmet Emin Akdogan
   International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Vol. 5, No 13, 2022
5. "Identifying Factors of Growth and Development of Industrial Clusters in Improving Competitiveness Using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) Case study: Tehran Metropolitan Region (TMR)"
   عاطفه کمالی, Mohsen Esmaeili, Mehrdad Rahmani
   Journal of Regional Planning, Vol. 14, No 54, 2024
6. "The comparative analysis of the proposed development pattern of the Tehran comprehensive plan 2007 with the transit oriented development pattern"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, Bahram Aminzadeh-Goharrizi, Saeed Rastegar, بابک امین زاده گوهرریزی
   geography and development of urban space, Vol. 8, No 1, 2021
7. "Explanation of Shiiaian utopia in the opinion of Mulla Sadra and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli"
   Samira Mahmoudi, Bahman Ahmadi, نازنین محمدی, Mehrdad Rahmani, Mehdi Bornafar
   research on Iranian Islamic cities, Vol. 8, No 32, pp.5-16, 2019
8. "Integrated Optimization of Allocation of FAR and Land Use and Public Transit Network Design"
   Bahram Aminzadeh-Goharrizi, Armin Jabbarzadeh, Saeed Rastegar, Mehrdad Rahmani, بابک امین زاده گوهر ریزی
   Quarterly Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 11, No 42, pp.181-199, 2019
9. "Thinking on the Roots of Problems of Tehran in Contemporary era Based on Philosophic hermeneutical approach"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, Mohammad Mehdi Azizi, Farshad Nourian
   Urban Planning Knowledge, Vol. 3, No 3, 2019
10. "A proposal model for residential density and distribution of activity compatible with TOD (Case study: District 12 of Tehran)"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Saeed Rastegar, Bahram Aminzadeh-Goharrizi, بابک امین زاده گوهر ریزی, Shiva Noori
    Motaleate Shahri, Vol. 7, No 28, 2018
11. "Sustainable (ethical) Dialogue in Urban Planning based on Molana and Bakhtin Approaches to Dialogue."
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Behnaz Amin Zadeh Gohar Rizi
    Journal of Social Theory Muslim scholars, Vol. 7, No 1, 2017
12. "Evaluation of Environment Quality in Low- Income People Housing Complexes: the case of Takestan Mehr Housing"
    Mohammad Mehdi Azizi, Mehrdad Rahmani
    soffeh, Vol. 24, No 64, 2014

Conference Paper

1. "Urbanization and Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Area of Caspian Sea: Challenges and Solutions with a Focus on Iran and Azerbaijan"
   Mehrdad Rahmani
   innovate for cities, 2021
2. "Shar Vs. City; A narration of Iranian City from Dariush Shayegan's point of view"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, فاطمه جمال آبادی
   International Conference on Hekmat-Based Architecture, Urban Development, Art, Industrial Design, Construction and Technology, 2024
3. "The complicity of wealth and power in urban development process in Saudi Arabia; From Oasis to Line"
   مجتبی شیرخدائی, Mehrdad Rahmani
   International Conference on Hekmat-Based Architecture, Urban Development, Art, Industrial Design, Construction and Technology, 2024
4. "Critical Narrative Analysis of Tehran High-Rise Building Trends in the Contemporary Era"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, فاطمه جمال آبادی
   First National Conference on Huamn Settlements, 2024
5. "Developing a Planning Framework for Strengthening the Balancing Role of Intermediate Cities"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, فائزه اصغریان
   First National Conference on Huamn Settlements, 2024
6. "Developing a design framework in sustainable regeneration with ephasis on urban governance"
   Hamidreza Rahmani, Mehrdad Rahmani
   Second International Conference: From Bio-Architecture to Utopia, 2023
7. "Diagnosis of Housing Policies in Iran During Past 70 Years with the Emphasis on Social Justice"
   Mehrdad Rahmani
   Research and Innovation in Urban Managment, 2023
8. "Establishment of a conceptual framework for Islamic Metropolis"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, فاطمه جمال آبادی
   3rd.International Conference on Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Development, Environment and Horizons of Islamic Art, 2023
9. "From Oil Dependence to Urban Sustainability: Management and Development Role Playing in Abu Dhabi"
   Mehrdad Rahmani, Fatemeh Jamalabadi
   second International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and City, 2023
10. "Toward sustainable urban planning; Procedural evaluation of 5-year Development-Administrative plans of cities based on the New Urban Agenda"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Mehdi Soleymani, کیمیا نادری ثانی کلالی
    3rd International Conference on Conversation of Natural Resources and Environment, 2022
11. "A Framework for Virtual Education of Urban Planning Studios"
    Mehrdad Rahmani
    The first Digital University of Tehran Fair, 2021
12. "Iran's Urban Planning in the mirror of High Rise Construction"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Fatemeh Jamalabadi
    Studies of Contemporary Iran, 2021
13. "Integrated planning of land use and transportation with multiple target in order to optimization (the Case: District 22 of Tehran)"
    Bahram Aminzadeh-Goharrizi, Saeed Rastegar, Mehrdad Rahmani, Armin Jabbarzadeh
    the 17th international conference of traffic and transportation engineering, 2018
14. "Corridor design for urban train based on TOD principle"
    محمد مهدوی مزده, Armin Jabbarzadeh, Saeed Rastegar, بابک امین زاده گوهرریزی, Mehrdad Rahmani
    14th International Industrial Engineering Conference, 2018
15. "Evaluation of mutual impacts of art tourism and urban entrepreneurship in public spaces, (the case: Valiasr st. of Tehran)"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, MONA ATARIANI
    Communication and art tourism, 2016
16. "University, Profession, and Environment; Analysis of the required context for realization of sufficient urban planning education"
    Mehrdad Rahmani
    Urban Planning Education, 2015
17. "Redefining the components of City Form based on Linguistics Approach"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Sousan Torabiparizi
    Urban Planning and Architecture Over Time, 2014
18. "Prioritize the components of environment quality in residential area of middle class groups"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Bahare Bahra
    Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sustainable Urban Development, 2013
19. "Analysis of Isfahan school in terms of its urban planning language system as an ideal for Islamic urban planning"
    Mehrdad Rahmani
    Islamic Architecture and Urban Planning, 2013
20. "Interrelationship between human and space based on Urban Design linguistics (the Case: Mozaffar St. in Tehran, Iran)"
    Mehrdad Rahmani, Maryam Afrouz, دانیال سارنج, وحید رحیم پور
    Humanistic Architecture and Urban Planning, 2013
21. "Strategic assessment of tourism development capacities and providing solutions for upgrading it, the case: Ramsar, Iran"
    Bahman Ahmadi, Mehrdad Rahmani, Mostafa Tavana
    National Conference on Iran's Tourism, 2013