Sara Hadavi

  • Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
  • Planning and design of everyday urban landscapes through interdisciplinary work

  • Urban greening in high-vacancy areas

  • Social dimensions of resilient urban food systems

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Sara Hadavi

Biography

Sara Hadavi joined the Stuckeman School's Department of Landscape Architecture on Aug. 1, 2024 as an assistant professor. She was previously an assistant professor of landscape architecture and regional and community planning with the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University where she taught master’s and advanced-level studios from 2019 to 2024.

She previously taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Hadavi’s research interest lies in the planning and design of everyday urban landscapes through interdisciplinary work, linking environmental psychology, planning and design to improve neighborhood satisfaction, wellbeing and quality of life in urban environments. Through her teaching and scholarship, she examines urban greening in high-vacancy areas and explores ways to improve equity and quality of life in racially segregated communities. Her recent research efforts have focused on social dimensions of resilient urban food systems including community health and food insecurity.

Hadavi has co-authored several papers in both peer-reviewed and professional journals and has written chapters in two publications: “Handbook of Quality of Life Research: Place and Space Perspectives,” edited by Robert Marans, Noah Webster and Robert Stimson (Elgar Publishing, 2024) and “Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography,” edited by Daniel R. Montello (Elgar, 2018).

She is the co-chair of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture’s People-Environment Relationships track and she serves on several American Society of Landscape Architects professional practice networks and committees.