| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and plates -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction Development, architecture, and heritage: The formation of a collective imagination -- A vital past: Engaging nostalgia -- Canvassing a future: The international congresses of architecture in Iran and the transnational search for identity -- Heritage in the everyday: Housing and collective identity before 1979 -- Forming a future from the past: Realizing an everyday Islamic identity -- Forming a national image through public projects: The Shahyad Arya-Mehr Tower |
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Plates -- Tehran's reluctant urban centre: Representing the national capital -- Conclusion: Design as the mediator of development and heritage -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
What is the relationship between development as a globalizing project and the production of cultural specificities in developmental contexts? Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architectural design -- Iran -- History -- 20th century
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Cultural property -- Iran
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran.
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Architectural design
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Cultural property
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Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Westbrook, Nigel, author
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| ISBN |
9781526150141 |
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152615014X |
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9781526150165 |
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1526150166 |
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9781526158376 |
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152615837X |
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