Print Email Facebook Twitter The City as Paradise: Spatialisation of Sovereignty in Early Iranian Cities Title The City as Paradise: Spatialisation of Sovereignty in Early Iranian Cities Author Khosravi, H. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architecture Date 2014-12-31 Abstract The complexity of the spatial structure of the contemporary Iranian city is not only the physical outcome of the delicate interactions between land speculation, topography, infrastructure, and regulations, but it has been also shaped by the overlapping of various historical layers, each of which featuring a project. Thus, every attempt towards creating an alternative future for the city needs to be preceded by a careful reading of its inherent structure. Here this reading offers an understanding of the concept of Iranian cities as result of a wider ideological and political project, not limited to a specific style or period, while a sovereign power represented itself through the urban form. The city therefore is determined by the constitution of opposed forces; a dichotomy between the sovereignty of the state and the movements which contest its legitimacy, between the normal and the exceptional, between friendship and enmity, inclusion and exclusion. The outcome is dynamic, where the opposing forces motivate or shape a creative tension: the state of the antithetical, which becomes specialised in the form of city. Subject cityparadiseIsfahanMedinaIran To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7fe2c082-a785-46e1-9ff1-0cae67b97d05 Publisher Officina Edizioni Access restriction Campus only ISBN 9788860491220 Source The next urban question. Bandieramonte, V., Cavalieri, C. et al. pp. 270-285, Roma, Officina Edizioni, 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2014 Officina Edizioni Files PDF Ecologies_of_Design_Q6.pdf 4.92 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7fe2c082-a785-46e1-9ff1-0cae67b97d05/datastream/OBJ/view