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Urban Change in Iran

Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments. The Urban Book Series

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 27th Mar 2019
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 15mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN-10: 3319798960
ISBN-13: 9783319798967
Barcode No: 9783319798967
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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.

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"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)