Tehran As a Patchwork Quilt

          

Hi everyone,

            For me, it is impossible to attend a course or read a piece and not try to put Iran in its frame. Unfortunately, there are not many accessible documents and articles about Iran in English in our field.

            Engineers of happy land showed me the new way of looking at how technology interacted with intellectual consciousness reminded me the way Iran’s face started to change when Iran’s royal family started to travel to Europe. Mrazek’s book examines the utopian plans of the Dutch engineers and the appropriations of their products by both the Dutch and the Indonesians (particularly the elites), and the same thing happened in Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. Reza shah wanted a modern country and he used European engineers and also sent young Iranian to Europe to train. This book also talks range widely about land-based transportation, radio, television and how people response to these technologies. Technology appears in Mrazek’s account as an agent. It speaks to the people who make and use it. Reading this book helped me to have a different perspective about nationalism in modern Iran and it did not only the Shah’s endeavor but also some of these changes in Iranian culture caused by technology. As in the book suggested “nationalism is a word that does not appear often in the book, but that expresses the book’s undercurrent” (p. xvii).

A SPATIO-TEMPORAL URBAN EXPANSION MODELING is about urban growth and how we should manage it. This is a confirmation for ongoing modernity.
          Reading about assemblage was very interesting for me. Some times I think Tehran is more like a patchwork quilt. Old and new neighborhood are so different that seeing their picture cannot be convinced you that not only they are located in the same city but in a walking distance. From luxury buildings to narrow streets with thatched walls.

http://landscape.geo.klte.hu/pdf/agd/2014/2014v8is1_2.pdf

https://urbanismwarehouse.wordpress.com/category/tehran-urban-history

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/tehran-architecture
http://www.chasingtheunexpected.com/2015/06/under-the-spell-of-old-tehran
http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/gallery/2015/jul/06/the-death-of-old-tehran-in-pictures

Andre' Godard, Architect of the "University of Tehran", "National Museum of Iran" and, etc.

Nasim