The Evolution of Urban Planning and Its Connections with the Formulation of the Question of Iran in the New Knowledge System

Document Type : Theoretical Articles

Authors

1 PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Background: The emergence of the political in urban planning, which has been reflected in the Iranian scholars' works in recent years, has led to the importance of issues in the field of social sciences in planning. Moreover, with the invalidating universal readings in planning, the socio-historical context has played a more prominent role. In our new knowledge system, the explanation of the historical situation of Iran is based on two approaches: Orientalism (Eurocentric perspective) and Nativism (reaction to orientalism). Both of these approaches have been made possible based on constructing the "other", in which less attention has been paid to the complexities of historical reality. In recent years, with the critique of both approaches, a new space for speaking and conceptualization has emerged, which emphasizes the positive reading and immanent analysis of the historical reality in Iran.
Objectives: This paper is seeking to identify the existing readings and narratives of the historical experience of the urban planning in Iran by showing the role of the context issues in urban planning.
Methodology: Based on an ontological question, this paper is committed to the research question itself by avoiding a priori application and direct theory and method, and therefore pursues invisible structures and mechanisms in the dominant narratives with a post-critical strategy and an approach based on critical realism.
Results: The identified narratives are: a) the relative success of planning in the technical dimension b) the failure of planning in Iran c) the lack of formation of planning in Iran, d) the special nature of planning in Iran and e) the transition view of planning (with two aspects focusing on the past and The future and thus the suspension of the present as well as the emerging space of immanent reading).
Conclusion: These readings which we called narratives are related to explaining the situation of Iran in the social sciences and our new system of knowledge. Using special mechanisms, it has become difficult to conceptualize the historical facts of urban planning. Along with the social sciences, here, in some later narratives, there are signs of a new space for an immanent reading of the experience of urban planning.

Highlights

The existing narratives of urban planning in the last decades in Iran have been widely connected to how the question of Iran is formulated in our new knowledge system.

The new dialogue space that has developed in recent decades, based on critique of the dual approaches of orientalism and nativism, has also been reflected in the knowledge of urban planning. The development of this new space can provide new possibilities for conceptualization.

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Urban Planning Knowledge
Volume 5, Issue 3
September 2021
Pages 91-106

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  • Receive Date: 29 May 2021
  • Revise Date: 30 September 2021
  • Accept Date: 29 October 2021

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