Urban Change in Iran

1. Introduction
Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini

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
Hassan Estaji, Karin Raith

3. In the Shadow of Written History: An Exploration of the Tehran Bazaar as a Non-place
Farzaneh Haghighi

4. Re-visiting Three Neighbourhoods of Modern Tehran: Chaharsad-Dastgah, Narmak and Nazi-Abad
Rana Habibi, Bruno Meulder, Seyed Mohsen Habibi

5. A Review of Urban Images of Tehran in the Iranian Post-revolution Cinema
Hamed Goharipour

Part II. Contemporary Society and Culture

6. From Modesty to Immodesty: A Quranic Reading of Change in the Islamic Iranian City
Seyed Mahdi Khatami, Michael Tawa

7. Tehran: A Call for Spatial Justice
Zahra Azizi, Mahya Fatemi

8. Citizens as Drivers for Urban Change: Citizens’ Exhibition as Participatory Tool. The Case of Hashtgerd New Town
Sabine Schröder, Jenny Schmithals

Part III. Urban Continuity or Discontinuity

9. Tehran, the Scene of Modernity in the Pahlavi Dynasty: Modernisation and Urbanisation Processes 1925–1979
Azadeh Mashayekhi

10. From Utopia to Dystopia: Shushtar-e-No, Endeavour Towards Paradigmatic Shift
M. Reza Shirazi

11. Tehran and the Lost Nature
Parisa Mirsadeghi

Part IV. Shaping Iranian Cities (Zooming Out)

12. The Relationship Between Urban Governance and Sustainable Urban Development in Iran
Naser Barakpou, Ramin M. Keivani

13. Tehran: Old and Emerging Spatial Divides
Hamidreza Rabiei-Dastjerdi, Maryam Kazemi

14. Typo-Morphological Analysis of Housing Layout and Density in Tehran
Homeira Shayesteh, Philip Steadman

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
Siavash Jamali, Manoochehr Dadashzadeh

16. The Evaluation of State Involvement in Large-scale Property-Led Regeneration Projects in Iran
Alireza Vaziri Zadeh

17. Getting Ready for Urban Reconstruction: Organising Housing Reconstruction in Bam
Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian

18. Erratum to: 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
Siavash Jamali, Manoochehr Dadashzadeh

Avainsanat: Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Geography