NEW BOOK: Tehran: From Sacred to Radical.
May 12, 2023
Dr. Asma Mehan presented her newly published monograph ‘TEHRAN: From Sacred to Radical’ at Princeton University.
Date: March 29, 2023, 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Location: Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
Event Description:
I invite you to join the discussion on transforming public spaces in Tehran, based on my book, "Tehran: From Sacred to Radical" (Routledge, 2022). Together, we will delve into the effects of political change, power struggles, and autocratic modernity on the city's architecture and the built environment.
This book offers an understanding of public spaces through political change, power struggle, and autocratic modernity manifested. It addresses the subject of politics in architecture and the built environment by examining the various academic literature in urban studies, architectural history, urban anthropology, urban sociology, cultural geographies, planning history, philosophy, and the broader social and political sciences. Followingly, it will be focused on the less well-known traditions of architecture and democratic values drawing upon western and (non)western perspectives to decolonize the notion of public space in the global south. In better words, the book investigates the mechanisms of power struggles and the transformative dynamism of totalization and state-led modernization, which motivates or shapes a creative tension in the form of the city.
