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Urban development as a dialectic between transport system and landuse: the case of Tehran's parcel strategies
The rapid population growth and urban transformation occurring in cities across the world is leaving its imprint across distinct geographic, socio-political and cultural local variations. Within diversity of situation and a complex context urbanism scholar recognize the common denominator; a process of urbanization without form, limits and consideration for the natural environment in cities. Iran's capital city; Tehran is not an exception being impacted by the rapid urbanization process within the last 3 decades that has been exacerbating existing dynamics of sprawl and urban fragmentation. The metropolis of 9million has known rapid development in a relatively short period of time. Major areas of the city are developed according to different land subdivision models for construction of villas and residential and commercial buildings based on plans and measure if early XXth century. The city of Tehran was developed on latter model until the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1987. To face the surge of population as a result of internal migration waves, Tehran's municipality authorized new higher constructions. The densification strategies, which were carefully conceptualized by city authorities, led in practice to the reduction of quality of life in transformed spaces. Indeed, this latest trend of urbanization in the capital unfolded with no adaptation on the urban transport policy side still predominately driven by the use of individual cars resulting in increasing congestion and air pollution. Meanwhile to face the increasing demand for parking space, urban designers and architects advocated for the easy and unsustainable practice of retrofitting vacant land and greenspaces into parking spaces. The resulting concretization of the land engulfed greenspace into grey spaces with the immediate result of increasing temperature and sealing-off the soil in many areas, expansion of heat islands and generally speaking disrupting natural dynamics including harvesting rain water run offs across the city in favor of a land use ...
Urban development as a dialectic between transport system and landuse: the case of Tehran's parcel strategies
The rapid population growth and urban transformation occurring in cities across the world is leaving its imprint across distinct geographic, socio-political and cultural local variations. Within diversity of situation and a complex context urbanism scholar recognize the common denominator; a process of urbanization without form, limits and consideration for the natural environment in cities. Iran's capital city; Tehran is not an exception being impacted by the rapid urbanization process within the last 3 decades that has been exacerbating existing dynamics of sprawl and urban fragmentation. The metropolis of 9million has known rapid development in a relatively short period of time. Major areas of the city are developed according to different land subdivision models for construction of villas and residential and commercial buildings based on plans and measure if early XXth century. The city of Tehran was developed on latter model until the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1987. To face the surge of population as a result of internal migration waves, Tehran's municipality authorized new higher constructions. The densification strategies, which were carefully conceptualized by city authorities, led in practice to the reduction of quality of life in transformed spaces. Indeed, this latest trend of urbanization in the capital unfolded with no adaptation on the urban transport policy side still predominately driven by the use of individual cars resulting in increasing congestion and air pollution. Meanwhile to face the increasing demand for parking space, urban designers and architects advocated for the easy and unsustainable practice of retrofitting vacant land and greenspaces into parking spaces. The resulting concretization of the land engulfed greenspace into grey spaces with the immediate result of increasing temperature and sealing-off the soil in many areas, expansion of heat islands and generally speaking disrupting natural dynamics including harvesting rain water run offs across the city in favor of a land use ...
Urban development as a dialectic between transport system and landuse: the case of Tehran's parcel strategies
Hedjazi, Alexandre Babak (author) / Hashemi Behramani, Alireza (author) / Aliyev, Tural (author)
2020-01-01
unige:145891
ISSN: 1811-6582 ; Urbanizm, no. 25 (2020) p. 26-41
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