Despite the impact of ideological rigidity, the primary challenge of heritage planning in Tehran and beyond lies not in the dominance of an inflexible Authorized Heritage Discourse, but rather in the absence of stable spatial-discursive and administrative structures. Solmaz Yadollahi maps the historical trajectory of conservation and urban heritage planning in Iran, depicting a discursive-spatial assemblage that tends to knock down its accumulated resources. This is in line with Katouzian's portrayal of Iran as a pick-axe society. Residing within this society, the studied assemblage strives to deconstruct the prevailing structures and usher in a fresh one, paradoxically perpetuating the very cycle it seeks to escape.
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Pages: 268
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
Publication Date:
03 June 2025
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837671629
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
Solmaz Yadollahi (Dr.), a conservation architect, earned her doctorate in heritage studies. Her academic journey includes positions as a research fellow at the Chair of Urban Management and an affiliated post-doctoral fellow at the DFG Research Training Group 1913, both at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. Namely, she assumed the role of Principal Investigator for the DFG-funded research project 431496196 entitled »Assembling Iran's Urban Heritage Conservation Policy and Practice: Problematized in Tehran«.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
A note on dates, translations, and transliterations 7
Glossary 9
List of Abbreviations 11
List of Figures 13
Acknowledgements 19
Introduction 21
The academic scope of the book 22
Underlying concepts 26
Methods of data collection and analysis: Unravelling the book's structure 32
Introduction 39
The first cycle: Assembling the conservation fundaments between two revolutions 40
The second cycle: Re-assembling conservation and heritage planning 65
The third cycle: A renewed endeavour to reform urban heritage assemblage 115
An introduction to Tehran's historic centre and its spatial-economic setting 147
Short stories around renewal, beautification, and place-making in Tehran's historic centre 154
Tehran's socio-spatial urban heritage assemblage 207
Urban heritage assemblage in Iran: A sequence of ephemeral territorialization endeavours foiled by de-territorializing forces 215
References 227
Index 265
