Overview
- Examines Persian landscapes extending beyond Persian gardens
- Examines under-explored aspects of contemporary landscape management and its linkages with sustainable development
- Covers both theory and practice
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Paradise in Persian
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Front Matter
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Paradise Perils and Protection
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a resourceful collection of essays examining recent efforts to respond to the challenges of planning, management and conserving landscapes in contemporary Iran, the home of Persian gardens. Drawing on selected recent studies, the chapters discuss the following topics:
- The sphere of knowledge and theoretical bases, including a survey of recent and ongoing research;
- Persian gardens remaining from the 6th century BC to the 19th century AD, which have influenced garden design in a vast geographic domain extending from India to Spain;
- Management and conservation of cultural landscapes, historic urban landscapes (HUL), road landscapes, and natural landscapes in the face of changes in climatic conditions and livelihood practices affecting their delicate dynamic balance and functions essential to their distinctive character; and
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Historic Territorial Landscapes (HTL) formed and evolved along the Silk and Spice Roads as compositions of tangible and intangible elements resulting from movement, exchanges and dialogue in space and over time.
The book is a useful resource for a range of academics and professionals, such as landscape architects and managers, landscape historians and conservationists, and urban planners and managers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Persian Paradises at Peril
Book Subtitle: Landscape Planning and Management in Contemporary Iran
Editors: Farzin Fardanesh, Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62550-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62549-8Published: 31 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62552-8Published: 01 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62550-4Published: 30 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Sustainable Development, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)