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- of increasing urban-population densification is also considered.
- Alongside more theoretically and artistically oriented debates, the book’s individual contributions turn their attention to the now much higher proportion of urban dwellers in the country’s rising population. It also discusses the policies designed in response to these demographic moves, including those to develop new towns, find housing for the excess population in existing cities, renovate historic buildings and create new public spaces. The practice-policy oriented contributions also include those concerning the country’s responses to natural disasters.
- Provides an in depth case study for understanding complexities of urban transformation, using cross disciplinary perspectives
- Includes the voice of a new generation of urban thinkers on the Iranian urban development context
- Offers first-hand information and analysis about Iran’s rapid developments in urbanism, bringing together knowledge of Iranian cities throughout the globe
- Based on a conference which was branded as a landmark event and received recognition by the UNESCO Director General
- This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics covered range from the impacts of political developments on the cities’ rapid socio-economic developments, to the cities’ troubled relationship with the country’s built-environment history and their frequently ill-managed exposure to Western notions of development and globalisation. Last but not least, the country’s vulnerability to natural disasters in an age
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Shaping Iranian Cities (Zooming In): Urban Projects and Programmes
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Back Matter
About this book
This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics covered range from the impacts of political developments on the cities’ rapid socio-economic developments, to the cities’ troubled relationship with the country’s built-environment history and their frequently ill-managed exposure to Western notions of development and globalisation. Last but not least, the country’s vulnerability to natural disasters in an age of increasing urban-population densification is also considered.
Alongside more theoretically and artistically oriented debates, the book’s individual contributions turn their attention to the now much higher proportion of urban dwellers in the country’s rising population. It also discusses the policies designed in response to these demographic moves, including those to develop new towns, find housing for the excess population in existing cities, renovate historic buildings and create new public spaces. The practice-policy oriented contributions also include those concerning the country’s responses to natural disasters.
Reviews
“This volume is a welcome contribution to the urban planning literature. It provides knowledge about Iranian urbanism to an international academic audience, and it illuminates the benefits as well as challenges facing international collaboration in urban planning research. It could also serve as a springboard for future, more comprehensive treatments of Iranian urban change and planning.” (Kian Tajbakhsh, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 40 (2), 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
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Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian
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Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, Shahid Beheshti University, London, United Kingdom
Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Change in Iran
Book Subtitle: Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments
Editors: Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26115-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26113-3Published: 29 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79896-7Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26115-7Published: 18 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Geography