Persian Paradises at Peril
Landscape Planning and Management in Contemporary Iran
Editors: Fardanesh, Farzin, Arefian, Fatemeh Farnaz (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Persian Paradises and Peril
Pages 3-15
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Paradises of the Pen
Pages 17-42
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The Knowledge of Landscape
Pages 43-62
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The Layered Life of Historic Urban Landscape
Pages 65-83
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The Lost Proportions of Qajarid Vistas
Pages 85-103
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Persian Paradises at Peril
- Book Subtitle
- Landscape Planning and Management in Contemporary Iran
- Editors
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- Farzin Fardanesh
- Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-62550-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-62550-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-62549-8
- Series ISSN
- 2365-757X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 293
- Number of Illustrations
- 40 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour
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