Yaseen Albarim

DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development

Thesis

Sustainability plans and worker housing regulations in Qatar: Two paradoxical quests?

Research abstract

The official planning system in Qatar has undertaken two efforts that appear to be in tension: spatial plans drawing on sustainability and worker housing regulations. In my research, I aim to explore the tensions between the effort of
the official planning system to achieve a spatially sustainable pattern of urban development and its effort to regulate the housing of low-income, migrant male workers.

Supervisor(s)

Dr. Idalina Baptista

Biography

I graduated from the University of Baghdad in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in architecture and from the American University of Beirut in 2014 with a master's degree in urban planning. I now study at the University of Oxford for the DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development. I also now work in Doha, Qatar, as an urban planner and designer. 

Publications

For my publication, kindly visit my Academia account at https://independent.academia.edu/RaadYaseen

Papers and lectures

For my publication, kindly visit my Academia account at https://independent.academia.edu/RaadYaseen

Research interests

I am interested in understanding the world and in making it better just like many of us out there. Now, my research interests include the nexus between social justice and sustainable urban development with a focus on the workers' housing and state planning policies.