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: Received: 3 November 2024 / Approved: 4 November 2024 / Online: 5 November 2024 (09:25:15 CET)
How to cite:
Hosseini, S. Z.; Wynn, M.; Parpanchi, S. M. The Farahzad Neighbourhood of Tehran: Land Use Transition in the City Periphery. Preprints2024, 2024110192. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0192.v1
Hosseini, S. Z.; Wynn, M.; Parpanchi, S. M. The Farahzad Neighbourhood of Tehran: Land Use Transition in the City Periphery. Preprints 2024, 2024110192. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0192.v1
Hosseini, S. Z.; Wynn, M.; Parpanchi, S. M. The Farahzad Neighbourhood of Tehran: Land Use Transition in the City Periphery. Preprints2024, 2024110192. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0192.v1
APA Style
Hosseini, S. Z., Wynn, M., & Parpanchi, S. M. (2024). The Farahzad Neighbourhood of Tehran: Land Use Transition in the City Periphery. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0192.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hosseini, S. Z., Martin Wynn and Seyed Mostafa Parpanchi. 2024 "The Farahzad Neighbourhood of Tehran: Land Use Transition in the City Periphery" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0192.v1
Abstract
Since the 1960s, Iran’s major cities have experienced significant migration from the country’s rural areas and from overseas. Although many urban planning and design concepts can be traced back to Iran, the coun-try’s planning machinery has failed to effectively regulate urban growth, notably in the city peripheries, where land use has changed radically as semi-rural areas have been developed in a haphazard fashion with scant adherence to existing plans and planning regulations. Farahzad is one such area in the urban periph-ery of Tehran, where a range of sub-standard dwellings have been built and urban services are deficient in many regards. This article uses secondary documentation, images developed from GIS data, and interview material with NGOs and other local authorities to explore the growth of the neighbourhood in recent dec-ades, and assess the current problems confronting both residents and local authorities. The article examines how the urban landscape has evolved, how the resident population has grown, and the nature of the social and economic issues that persist today. Findings suggest that the planning machinery, and land use zoning in particular, have played little part in guiding or controlling urban development in this peripheral neigh-bourhood, and that identifying urban fabrics may prove a useful way of assessing socio-economic and physical development needs in such circumstances. The article makes a small contribution to our under-standing of the change dynamics in a peripheral neighbourhood of a major city in the developing world.
Keywords
urban periphery; urban fabric; urban planning; informal housing; social deprivation; poverty; local plans
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
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