Last November our PhD candidate Azadeh Mashayekhi presented a paper during the international conference Urban Change in Iran, organized by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit of University College London (UCL). She wrote this review for the Lebanese journal Portal 9 : Given the recent political turmoil in Iran, discussions about the country in both Europe and North America tend to focus on geopolitics, sidestepping other critical issues such as urbanization. Tehran in particular, with a population of over 8 million, is one of the world’s largest cities yet figures marginally in most academic discussions about urban growth. The Bartlett Development… Read More