Zhand, Sepehr;
(2024)
Political reform and the form of the city – Reading through the adoption of modern planning in Tehran using space syntax.
In: Kantarek, Anna Agata and Hanzl, Małgorzata and Musiaka, Łukasz and Figlus, Tomasz, (eds.)
XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form. ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation. A Multidisciplinary Perspective.
(pp. pp. 1990-2007).
Lodz University of Technology Press
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Abstract
With the discovery of abundant oil resources and the bold agenda of the former monarch of Iran, a rigid and ambitious political reform was introduced in the country. Adopting a western way of economic development, these political reforms sought to not only change the social arrangement in the country but also change the way the country was looked upon. This set path for a series of radical and quick changes in the way everyday life of the city dwellers was facing. Given the importance of the industrialization in these political reforms and moving away from a labour-intensive economy, top-down modern master-planning changed the way the cities were thought of and in turn the way they meant to be serving the political agenda. In time for the rise of the modern methods of material production and vehicular-based strategic planning, the capital city of Tehran became the most prominent subject to these changes in terms of patterns of development and settlement schemes. Through a conversation between the planning and policy-making documents and a quantitative analysis of the built city, this research seeks to ask how the change in the political agenda and the approach in city making logic shapes the modern metropolitan area of Tehran and what are the fundamental differences between the process of growth in the built environment before and after the implementation of these changes. The analysis here shows that the fundamental change in the city of Tehran happened after the WWII that a series of development policies changed the logic of city making, and in turn the way the city grew and functioned afterwards.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Political reform and the form of the city – Reading through the adoption of modern planning in Tehran using space syntax |
| Event: | XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form. ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation. A Multidisciplinary Perspective |
| Location: | Łódź–Kraków |
| Dates: | 6 Sep 2022 - 11 Sep 2022 |
| DOI: | 10.34658/9788367934039 |
| Publisher version: | http://hdl.handle.net/11652/5019 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Tehran, Spatial network, Political change, Urban growth |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198856 |
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