Elmira Jafari
Biographic Data
| ID | 9030731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elmira Jafari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elmira |
| FAMILY NAME | Jafari |
| SIGNATURE | JAFARI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1768-5013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Making of the Modern Iranian Capital
This dissertation puts together planning documents and multiple archival sources to demonstrate how urban planning and the role of planners have evolved in an ever-changing transnational context of Iran. It challenges the prevailing approach in the literature of Tehran urban studies that simply flattens the complexity of local-foreign collaboration and labels transnational planning of Tehran a top-down “Westernization” project. To depict a more n…
Revisiting the transnational building of a modern planning regime in Iran
In the late 1960s, the first Tehran Master Plan (TMP) was envisioned by a constellation of local and foreign experts. The TMP, which has been extensively studied, is usually credited to big-name planner and architect Victor Gruen. Scholars have neglected the contributions of local professionals in shaping the plan. Many depict the TMP as the product of Cold War geopolitics and a scheme directly exported to Tehran to facilitate top-down modernizat…
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Revisiting the transnational building of a modern planning regime in Iran
In the late 1960s, the first Tehran Master Plan (TMP) was envisioned by a constellation of local and foreign experts. The TMP, which has been extensively studied, is usually credited to big-name planner and architect Victor Gruen. Scholars have neglected the contributions of local professionals in shaping the plan. Many depict the TMP as the product of Cold War geopolitics and a scheme directly exported to Tehran to facilitate top-down modernizat…
The Making of the Modern Iranian Capital
This dissertation puts together planning documents and multiple archival sources to demonstrate how urban planning and the role of planners have evolved in an ever-changing transnational context of Iran. It challenges the prevailing approach in the literature of Tehran urban studies that simply flattens the complexity of local-foreign collaboration and labels transnational planning of Tehran a top-down “Westernization” project. To depict a more n…
Civil engineering (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture and Cultural Influences (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work)