Edited Volume

2018. with S. Singler. Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, 27.

Articles

2017. with A. Ahmadi. ‘Scaling Down Planning in Doha Towards the Neighborhood and its Public Realm,’ QScience Connect, Shaping Qatar’s Sustainable Built Environment, 2017: qgbc.2: 1-22

2013. ‘Advancing the Struggle for Urban Justice to the Assertion of Substantive Citizenship: Challenging Ethnocracy in Tel Aviv-Jaffa,’ DPU Working Paper No. 150, University College London.

Book Chapters

2022. ‘Palaces of Power in Tunis: Entanglements of Nation and State from Independence to Revolution,’ in Architecture of the Territory: Constructing National Narrativesed. by Collective for Architecture Lebanon (Beirut: Kaph Books)

Other

2021. ‘Confronting Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork: Potential Sites of Intervention within DPU’s PhD Programme,’ Development Planning Unit, University College London.

Dena's research is concerned with how urban sites become centres for political and cultural conflict during periods of profound social change. This has included investigations on urban planning as domination and opposition in an ethnically divided Tel Aviv-Jaffa; neighbourhood design and the public realm in rapidly expanding Doha; and the urban consequences of revolution in 21st century Tunis.

She has worked in architecture, urban planning, and higher education in New York, London, Palestine and Doha. These experiences have shaped the international and comparative approach she brings to my research and teaching practice.

Dena is part of the Urban Sociology research cluster.

Dena teaches on the MSc City Design and Social Science programme, including City Design: Research Studio, Cities by Design, and Independent Project.