Urban change in Iran : stories of rooted histories and ever-accelerating developments /: stories of rooted histories and ever-accelerating developments. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini, editors.
• Editors: Farnaz Arefian, Fatemeh; Moeini, Seyed Hossein Iradj
• Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Pre-modern and Contemporary Urbanism -- 2. The Role of Qanat and Irrigation Networks in the Process of City Formation and Evolution in the Central Plateau of Iran, the Case of Sabzevar.-3. In the Shadow of Written History: An Exploration of the Tehran Bazaar as a Non-Place -- 4. Re-visiting Three Neighbourhoods of Modern Tehran: Chaharsad-Dastgah, Narmak and Nazi-Abad -- 5. A review of Urban Images of Tehran in the Iranian Post-revolution Cinema -- Part II: Contemporary Society and Culture -- 6.From Modesty to Immodesty: A Quranic Reading of Change in the Islamic Iranian City -- 7. Tehran: a Call for Spatial Justice -- 8. Citizens as Drivers for Urban Change: Citizens’ Exhibition as Par-ticipatory Tool. The Case of Hashtgerd New Town -- Part III: Urban Continuity or Discontinuity -- 9. Tehran, the Scene of Modernity in the Pahlavi Dynasty: Modernisa-tion and Urbanisation Processes 1925 – 1979 -- 10. From Utopia to Dystopia: Shushtar-e-no Endeavour Towards Par-adigmatic Shift -- 11. Tehran and the Lost Nature -- Part IV: Shaping Iranian Cities (zooming out) -- 12. The Relationship between Urban Governance and Sustainable Urban Development in Iran -- 13. Tehran: Old and Emerging Spatial Divides -- 14. Typo-Morphological Analysis of Housing Layout and Density in Tehran -- Part V: Shaping Iranian Cities (zooming in): Urban Projects and Programmes -- 15. The Effects of Iran’s First Baby Boomers (1976––1986) on the Housing Economy of Iran and the Government Policies to Deal with its Resulting Issues -- 16. The Evaluation of State Involvement in Large-scale Property-led Regeneration Projects in Iran -- 17. Getting Ready for Urban Reconstruction: Organising Urban Housing Reconstruction in Bam.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 307.760955; Geography; Sociology, Urban -- Iran; Urban policy -- Iran; Sociology, Urban; Urban policy; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Physical geography & topography; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Iran; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319261157; 3319261150
• Related ISBNs: 3319261134; 9783319261133
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 29, 2015).
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