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Tehran - From Sacred to Radical (Hardcover)
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Tehran - From Sacred to Radical (Hardcover)
Series: Built Environment City Studies
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This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of
interest to a broad range of academics. The book examines the
relationship between democracy and the (trans)formations of urban
spaces through comparative perspective. It engages with the ideas
of 'modernity' in architecture and investigates how they might
align (or not) with other forms of radical power. This book offers
an understanding of the public spaces through political change,
power struggle, and autocratic modernity manifested. It addresses
the subject of politics in architecture and built environment by
examining the various academic literature in urban studies,
architectural history, urban anthropology, urban sociology,
cultural geographies, planning history, philosophy, and the broader
social and political sciences. Followingly, it will be focused on
the less well-known traditions of architecture and democratic
values drawing upon western and (non)western perspectives to
decolonize the notion of public space in the global south. In
better words, the book investigates the mechanisms of power
struggles and the transformative dynamism of totalization and
state-led modernization, which motivates or shapes a creative
tension in the form of the city. The topic of the work is novel and
aims to examine the relationship between the affordances of public
spaces, their micro-histories, and the emergence of critical social
events and movements. The breadth of the topic demanded engagement
with a rich body of architectural theory and history and relevant
texts in urban sociology, colonial and postcolonial studies,
political geography, and cultural studies, a challenge to which the
book has responded outstandingly. The issue is urgent for
policymakers and architects, urban designers, political and
cultural geographers, and other practitioners working on the built
environment to create more democratic public spaces in the global
south.
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