Development, Architecture, Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth - A Vital Past

What is the relationship between development as a globalizing project and the production of cultural specificities in developmental contexts? Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts.

List of contents

Introduction: Development, architecture, and heritage: The formation of a collective imagination
1 A vital past: Engaging nostalgia
2 Canvassing a future: The international congresses of architecture in Iran and the transnational search for identity
3 Heritage in the everyday: Housing and collective identity before 1979
4 Forming a future from the past: Realizing an everyday Islamic identity
5 Forming a national image through public projects - The Shahyad Arya-Mehr Tower
6 Tehran's reluctant urban centre: Representing the national capital
Conclusion: Design as the mediator of development and heritage
Bibliography

About the author

Ali Mozaffari is ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation at Deakin University

Nigel Westbrook is Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia Design School

Product details

• Authors: Ali Mozaffari, Ali Westbrook Mozaffari, Mozaffari Ali, Nigel Westbrook
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526150158
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5015-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Iran, Architecture, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Development Studies, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)