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Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran : A vital past /

In developing contexts, competing ideas of the past have played a vital role in understanding the present and imagining the future. This vitality is discerned in both politics and culture but importantly, in cultural expressions such as architecture. This book interprets development as a globalizing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Mozaffari, Ali (Autor), Westbrook, Nigel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Tehran's reluctant urban centre : representing the national capital
  • Conclusion. Design as the mediator of development and heritage.