The Greater Tehran Megalopolis and Urban Management Challenges
Subject Areas : GeopoliticKarim Hamdi 1 , Shahram Amir Entekhabi 2
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Keywords: The greater tehran megalopolis, Urban region, Karaj urban pole, Metropolis, Urban Management,
Abstract :
Tehran megalopolis as the biggest urban capital of the MiddleEast was considered a small city in compare to ancient and famous cities of Iran up to two centuries ago which was located in northern margin of Ray and had a mild climate in southern slipe of Alborz, that political revolutions of the state from Safavieh era subscribed its communicational crossroads importance. Specially, from that point of view that this city was located in the centre and geographical core of direction of powerful tribes who were claiming for administration. So that finally, in beginning of Ghajarieh era, it was selected as the capital city and its importance increased day by day, and with entering to the new age after the parliamentary revolution and beginning of fast period of civilization in Iran, Tehran by passing through its natural and historical borders and attachment of surrounding towns and villages changed into a greater megalopolis that of course met many functional, physical and social-economical problems and difficulties of megalopolises of undeveloped countries. Problems such as unidentification, uncoordinated physical and spatial context of old and new districts of city, living environmental pollutions, living in suburbs, over centralization of official and non-official economic activities and therefore uncoordinated centralization of population in this city and so on, caused that population centers and margin cities of this megalopolis grew up and changed into population poles as the dormitory centers and hinterlands of Tehran that creation of Karaj urban pole in west of Tehran is the best example in this regard. Therefore, by concentration of population in other towns around Tehran, now we face an urban assemblage and region in area of Tehran Province, and formation of such structure in body of the country, Tehran Province has had its own consequences and needs a specific great political and administrational management.
