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The Evaluation of State Involvement in Large-scale Property-Led Regeneration Projects in Iran

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Urban Change in Iran

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Abstract

During the last two decades a number of state-led, large-scale property-led regenerations have been implemented in Iran. This chapter evaluates the reasons for the failure of these projects by critically discussing two case studies: one in Tehran (Navvab) and the other in Mashhad (the city centre). Mega-scale regeneration projects are usually associated with concerns about the social polarisation and spatial fragmentation in cities. These concerns can be observed more or less in many European redevelopment initiatives. Yet, reviewing mega-scale regeneration in Iranian cases reveals the existence of the same concerns, and more. Using the theory about state-failure, the chapter argues that the additional issues Iranian cities are involved with compared to European cases, is because of the dominance of the state-led approach and the lack of institutional capacity in regeneration programmes, leading to their failure.

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    URSPIC is a research about thirteen large-scale projects in the EU.

Abbreviations

CBI:

Confederation of British Industries

MHUD:

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development

ROT:

Regeneration Organization of Tehran

URSPIC:

Urban Redevelopment and Social Polarisation in the City

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  1. Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Alireza Vaziri Zadeh

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  1. Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian

  2. Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, Shahid Beheshti University, London, United Kingdom

    Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini

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Vaziri Zadeh, A. (2016). The Evaluation of State Involvement in Large-scale Property-Led Regeneration Projects in Iran. In: Arefian, F., Moeini, S. (eds) Urban Change in Iran. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26115-7_16

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