PLANNING AND DESIGN FROM GARDEN CITY TOWARD MODERN CITY
Iran-Iraq war (1981-89) left both countries, especially Iran with lots of damages. Three cities in Iran, next to boundaries with Iraq, ruined hundred percent, like no one, never lived there. I have been to one of those cities, Ghasre Shirin which has called bride of Iran’s cities before destruction. Many of residents lost their life or beloved one and many didn’t want to go back and struggle with building a new city. The Central government also didn’t want to invest in cities so close to boundaries. People started to build houses with the basic material. These cities don’t have an urban plan and just a couple of years ago its local government started to build some public areas. In this case, the problem is cities strategic location, being close to boundaries leaves them with no solution but investing in the army more than the city.
The other reason could be that even before the war they were not big cities with a huge population. However, it reminds me that one of the important cities in the south of Iran that occupied with Iraq army for a while after twenty-six years still look like a city in war. Destroyed building with bullet effects everywhere.
It sounds there are not more than three cities in Iran that government really care about their urban plans. Of course, one of them is Tehran, the capital. Tehran located in an area which has been a settlement for more than six thousand years. It is the third biggest city in the Middle East. The face of Tehran, as I said before, is so different in different areas. Reading of this week raised the question of how it is possible to make an urban plan for a city like Tehran.
I searched for an answer and the article, “URBAN ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE PLANNING AND DESIGN FROM GARDEN CITY TOWARD MODERN CITY - A CASE STUDY: TEHRAN CITY IN IRAN”, has some good points about Tehran urban planning.
It is speaking of planning and design from garden city, traditional plan for Iranian cities, toward modern city: “In recent decades, as a result, the comprehensive and detailed plans carried out in Tehran which neglects the environmental structures and landscape ecology and also the valuable historic gardens, we are confronted with the disturbed situation of the city, Environmental pollutions, fragmentation in the landscape ecology, disorder in the city structure and land use, etc.”
“Tehran grow on me”
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