- The Mechanism of Transformation of Shiraz City from Past to Present    click here to open paper content317 kb
by    Movahed, Khosrow | khmovahed1@yahoo.com   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
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The study is going to analyze the city during its long history of evolution, but the major focus of the paper is to compare the differences between urban planning and growth of the city in the past and present.
Abstract
Abstract
This paper investigates Shiraz, the cultural capital city of Iran in the past and present. The study are going to analyze the city during its long history of evolution, but the major focus of the paper is to compare the differences between urban planning and growth of the city in the past and present.
The paper analyses the old transformations of the city and explains how the historic developments of the city, in particular the vast growth of the city about 3 hundred years ago, were in harmony with its spatial, as well as social structure.
Then it will be demonstrated in details how the 20th century planning solutions have failed to continue the thoughts of the past. The initial acts of road building in the beginning of the previous century, as well as the new comprehensive master plans drawn for the city during 60s and 80s, are evaluated and their positive and negative sides are investigated. The study will go further to examine the very current debates in the city, including the network of public spaces in central Shiraz and the royal district. The results of the study provide a general knowledge for the city of Shiraz, which are very important for any planning and urban design decision making process in present and future; but more importantly, these results offer a useful source for contemporary urban planning in historic cities with similar characteristics to the city of Shiraz all over the world.

Keywords: spatial structure, master planning, road building, urban transformation

Keywords
Keywords: spatial structure, master planning, road building, urban transformation
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2006: Cities between Integration and Disintegration
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