Urban Change in Iran

• 1. 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.

“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)