Spatial Discrimination in Tehran’s Modern Urban Planning 1906–1979
- Vahid Vahdat Zad, Architecture Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA. Email: vahid{at}tamu.edu
Abstract
This article studies the relationship between social culture and spatial discrimination in the modern urban planning of Tehran. It examines how planning attempts during the Qajar era began to enrich the ideas of citizenship and public space, which in effect transformed the racial and religious discriminations to new forms of segregation based on economic classes. It shows how multiple planning practices during Reza Shah favored a uniform modernist style to create an imaginary national identity. The divergence of socioeconomic classes under Shah’s planning practices is also analyzed to show the spatial discrimination that the new urban poor had to bear.
Article Notes
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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Funding The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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