Overview
- Analyzes the first urban regeneration experiences in Tehran, assessing the pros and cons of two different approaches
- Shows that lessons drawn from these experiences are applicable to the wider developing world
- Demonstrates that development decision-making needs to take into account institutional contexts
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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This book compares two urban regeneration models, namely piecemeal and comprehensive redevelopments. Tehran, like many cities in the developing world, on the one hand faces extensive deterioration in its inner-city neighbourhoods and on the other hand, faces rapid population growth. Urban regeneration is adapted as a policy that not only accommodates urban growth within the city boundaries, but also tackles the deterioration problems. This book tries to understand how these two redevelopment models operate in run-down neighbourhoods of Tehran, with a specific focus on developers’ behaviour regarding these two models.
Two neighbourhoods that have undergone redevelopments in Tehran, one piecemeal and one comprehensive, are chosen as case studies. Utilising institutional analysis as a qualitative methodological approach, this book improves our understanding of the process of built environment production, as well as the role of developers and state in the development process.The book demonstrates that the development decision-making cannot be solely understood as the result of economic rationality, as it occurs within institutional contexts structured by dynamic needs and concerns of actors. In advancing institutional analysis, the research demonstrates the different approaches taken by developers, development organisations and planners as they engaged differently with the wider structures set by the government through different policies.
Two neighbourhoods that have undergone redevelopments in Tehran, one piecemeal and one comprehensive, are chosen as case studies. Utilising institutional analysis as a qualitative methodological approach, this book improves our understanding of the process of built environment production, as well as the role of developers and state in the development process.The book demonstrates that the development decision-making cannot be solely understood as the result of economic rationality, as it occurs within institutional contexts structured by dynamic needs and concerns of actors. In advancing institutional analysis, the research demonstrates the different approaches taken by developers, development organisations and planners as they engaged differently with the wider structures set by the government through different policies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Redeveloping Tehran
Book Subtitle: A Study of Piecemeal Versus Comprehensive Redevelopment of Run-Down Areas
Authors: Kiavash Soltani
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97091-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97090-1Published: 14 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97093-2Published: 15 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97091-8Published: 13 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 179
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy