Overview
- Fully illustrated book with unique sketches, photographs and illustrations
- Investigates Tehran's new-generation alternative cultural scene through its spatial arrangements and their genealogies
- Analyses in detail the politics and semiotics of space making adopted by the Tehran middle-class urbanite, and unfolds their territory-making strategies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979. It analyzes urban resistance and urban processes in underground cultural spaces: bookshops, cafes and art galleries. The intended audience is architects and urban planners interested in socio-political aspects of bottom-up space formation, but also those in humanities and particularly cultural studies. The idea of the book reflects architectural criticism and bottom-up processes of space formation. It analyzes alternative, non-official ways of forming cultural spaces in Tehran and the way they resist formally endorsed culture.
Cafés, bookshops and galleries, each take various and different sets of strategies to constitute their territory and their communities within the city. From temporarily occupying street corners (booksellers) to constitution of an underground network of unfixed meeting points, to using the modern paradigms of ownership and the idea of private property, primarily as a political tool for management, to claim a safe alternative sphere of art, and finally to semiotic spatial codifications of spaces to make them as a safe gathering places taking food as a means. All these three cultural spaces deal with various conditions to form specific forms of resistance practices, throughout processes that leave their spatial traces on the city.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Culture in Tehran
Book Subtitle: Urban Processes in Unofficial Cultural Spaces
Authors: Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini, Mehran Arefian, Bahador Kashani, Golnar Abbasi
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65500-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65499-7Published: 19 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88043-3Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65500-0Published: 27 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 172
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Middle Eastern Culture, Sociology of Culture, Urban History