Guardian Cities Goes Tehran!



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Architecture and design critic, Oliver Wainwright writes on Tehran for Guardian Cities series ‘The Next 15 Megacities’.

Having been interviewed for his piece, I discuss here a number of critical issues facing the car-centric city; from inane creation of megastructures such as Sadr Expressway, to the implementation of the disastrous Garden-Tower (burj-bāgh) act within the past decade, to the totally-wrong approach of the capital towards its most juvenile Region: 22. 

Read the full article here.

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