Urban Change in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-Accelerating Developments

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319798960
• ISBN13: 9783319798967
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"