Rate My Professor Ardeshir Anjomani

Ardeshir Anjomani is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs. He joined the University of Texas at Arlington in 1979 as a faculty member in City and Regional Planning and continued his distinguished career for 45 years, earning the title of Professor Emeritus in August 2025, effective September 1, 2025, in recognition of his excellence in teaching, research, and service to the university and community. Anjomani holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California, awarded in 1979, and an M.Arch. from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1968. Throughout his tenure, he has been actively involved in graduate education, serving as advisor and committee member for numerous master's theses and doctoral dissertations in planning-related fields.

Anjomani's research specializations include economic development, land-use/transport planning, environmental planning, suitability analysis, planning support systems, and urban design. His scholarly contributions appear in prominent journals such as Sustainability, Journal of Transport Geography, Journal of Transport and Land Use, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, and Journal of Population Economics. Key publications encompass 'Do Rail Transit Stations Affect the Population Density Changes Around Them? The Case of Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area' (Sustainability, 2021), 'Do Rail Transit Stations Affect Housing Value Changes? The Dallas Fort-Worth Metropolitan Area Case and Implications' (Journal of Transport Geography, 2019), 'An Integrated Land-Use/Transportation Forecasting and Planning Model: A Metropolitan Planning Support System' (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2021), 'Regional Growth and Interstate Migration' (Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2002), 'Migration Stock and the Issue of Competing and Complementary Flows in United States Interstate Migration' (Journal of Population Economics, 1992), and 'The Overlaying Map Technique: Problems and Suggested Solutions' (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1984). He received the CAPPA Stars in Recognition of Outstanding Service award in 2016. Anjomani's work has advanced understanding of transit impacts on urban density and property values, as well as integrated modeling for metropolitan planning, particularly in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.