Community Planning
Design and planning approaches that prioritize community needs, social equity, and inclusive urban development.
Heba Rasheed – Family Friendly Cities: The Role of Urban Planning in Creating Safe, Inclusive, and Supportive Environments for Families – 2025
This publication presents my Master's dissertation completed in 2026, exploring the role of urban planning in creating family-friendly cities. The research examines planning principles, urban design strategies, and policy frameworks that promote safety, inclusivity, accessibility, and well-being for families. Through literature review, case studies, and analytical research, the dissertation proposes planning recommendations for developing supportive and sustainable urban environments that enhanc
Re-connecting Salford
The driving aim of this project is to bring communities back together. This area of Salford, once a vibrant, thriving community, now seems to be suffering due to the alienation of its citizens. My proposal attempts to become the centre of the community by using striking architecture and amenities that bring residents closer.
SHELTERED: Alternative Shelter and Urban Framework
This thesis considers all homeless shelters and resources in an urban setting as one connected system, then uses architecture to bridge the gaps in this system in order to connect federal resources, municipal responsibilities, and non-profit efforts.
Cities for Every Generation
Planning Kochi for Safer, Inclusive, and Family-Friendly Urban Living By Heba Rasheed
A Park in the shade; Climate responsive industrial village at Palakkad.
This project is an attempt to adapt some building typologies to the changing climate. The program was to design amenities for an existing industrial park in Palakkad. The Aim was to tackle the issue through climate responsive architectural planning and designing of buildings incorporating computational methods.
EUNOIA
‘Slowing down, experiencing, and thinking’ are the parts of the methodology that is accepted and embraced while recreating the faded-green Nuestro Park, located in the hot-arid climate of Phoenix, Arizona.
THE SOCIAL RING
A Moroccan Settlement for the Elderly. The Proposed design helps elders to access the Basic, Financial and Social needs for their life in a
Heal: Regenarative housing for Kerala
The designs offers a series of inside out strategies which would help affected communities deal with a flood situation and also help in recovery in the aftermath.
AABHAS -a sense of home
They build our cities, yet live without a place in them. This project reimagines housing for migrant workers-not as shelter, but as dignity. Modular, mobile, and co-created, it moves with them, grows with them, and uplifts their families with creche, workshops, and safe spaces. A home that respects culture, empowers women, and builds community.dfbhsetnhjsetn
K A R A N G
Resilent city for
Radical, futuristic and explorative. Modules are quite applicative, but doesn’t offer various options for further development. Lack of analysis for supporting system such as energy and self-sufficient methods.
It offers something new which I do not see on other entry. However, some improvement in the method of presentation is necessary to articulate some of its space composition.
St. James Town Hub: Reimagining Community Through Adaptive Architecture
Adaptive architecture transforms St. James Town with modular community hubs, creating flexible public spaces for social, economic, and urban renewal.
GOLUBAC: NEW VIEWS
The project includes research, as well as proposals for the transformation and development of Golubac, a village located in eastern Serbia on the banks of the Danube.
Community-Led Housing
Community Led Housing in Bangladesh reimagines formal housing through participatory and problem centric design. By engaging residents in co creation, the project addresses contextual challenges across spatial, social and environmental dimensions while fostering adaptability and collective identity. It envisions housing not only as shelter but as a resilient platform for cultural expression, social cohesion and sustainable urban living.
DIF Comitancillo Center: A Community Architecture Project in Oaxaca
Community center in Oaxaca uses vaulted concrete, lattice facades, patios, and flexible spaces to deliver dignified, climate-responsive social infrastructure community.
AFLOAT | A WATER RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOOD
To design a neighborhood that responds to climatic variations and offers resilience to the inhabitants of Jakarta, Indonesia due to rising sea levels caused by global climate change. Jakarta is one of the fastest sinking city in the world and this project aims at creating a water resilient neighborhood that takes inspiration from amphibious architecture.
Great approach to a water resilient neighborhood.
Interesting modular concept with good thought put into the idea of co-ha-biting with water.
I think this is simply lovely and uplifting! WELL DONE!
It is a project with a detailed programmatic study. This analysis is made explicit through easy to understand graphics.
AFLOAT | Resilient Indonesian Floating City
A modular resilient floating city grounded by a central community hub allowing for interconnectivity between multiplied communities. Branches of residential units allow for separations of families while joining all people to formulate a
When can I move in? Save me a spot 😉 Great work, very impressive!
Bridget Assaly - I’ll move into the pad next door to you! This looks great!
Would love to live in one of these units.
Building Smarter, Building Together
"BSBT" addresses head on the realities of the previous devastating flood and proactive methods to mitigate future floods. Our approach builds upon enhanced digital technology in combination with shared spatial interventions and strengthens the community through shared building and socio-economic investment strategies.
Overall a comprehensive and well-illustrated scheme.