Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi

A Social History of Modern Tehran

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Produktbeschreibung

"Telling the history of Tehran from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates how the city was transformed by developing discourses around spatial knowledge. Using an array of archival sources, Rezvani Naraghi stresses the agency of everyday inhabitants in the process of urban change"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 856g
• ISBN-13: 9781009188890
• ISBN-10: 1009188895
• Artikelnr.: 64298986

Autorenporträt

Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi (1983¿2020) was Assistant Professor in the School of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Tehran. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2016 and his article on middle-class urbanism appeared in Iranian Studies in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Preface by Jennifer A. Jordan
Introduction
1. Segmented society and the social production of communal spaces
2. Segmented society and spaces of political mobilization
3. Iranian travelers and the production of spatial knowledge
4. The Qajar court and the city: spatial strategies of the state in the nineteenth century
5. The interwar period and middle-class urbanism
6. The age of social movements: the transformation of political public space
Conclusion
Appendix: protest, political gatherings, and parades between 1941 and 1953
Bibliography
Index.