Professional Practitioner Experience

  • Founder and Director. Designing apartment complexes and neighborhoods

  • Long Range Planner II/Associate Planner (2023-present)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Project managing for neighborhoods, community, area plans, and corridor plans.

    • Designing floodplain public spaces

    • Grant writing

    • Organizing workshops to increase community engagement in the projects.

    • Developing landscape, streetscape, and urban design proposals

    • Developing goals/objectives for projects, along with implementation strategies, and writing/designing the final product.

  • Urban Designer and Planner (2016-2018)

    Included the revitalization of the historical, and disadvantaged parts of the city of Qom in terms of social, physical, and economic factors using social participation, and designing the historical nodes and corridors of the city to improve the place identity, tourism, and local economy. The projects helped communities manage and participate in the planning and designing of proposed projects

  • Urban Designer (2015-2016)

    The projects included analyzing and designing the urban landscape and sidewalks, analyzing the implemented projects and their socio-economic impacts, and evaluating residents’ perceptions of the projects.

Affordable Housing - Wofford

Location: Spartanburg, SC

Designer: Saeideh Sobhaninia

Client
Vanrock Holding

Year
11/2023

Affordable Housing - Oslo

Location: Spartanburg, SC

Designer: Saeideh Sobhaninia

Client
VanRock Holding

Year
07/2023

Del Norte Community Place

This project was part of a big “Back to Nature” effort, where I was the project manager of turning the vacant lots in flood zone to public spaces. This effort included constant meetings with the community and engaging them in the design process. As a planner at Greenville County, I collaborated with the residents through several community workshops and co-created a community place with educational garden for kids, rain garden, community garden, and playground.

Client
Greenville County

Year
06/2023

Urban Revitalization

Qom, Iran

Located in the historic part of the City of Qom, Iran, this project intended to revitalize the historic part of the city by designing public spaces close to historic buildings and connecting them with walkable corridors. The planning and design included constant meetings with residents, stakeholders and city officials.

Client
Revitalization Organization

Year
2016 - 2017