ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Tehran of the late Naserid period (the late nineteenth century), and investigates the urban life and urban morphology of city. It also reviews the three travellers, namely Sir George Nathaniel Curzon, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, and Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, who visited Naserid Tehran after its new developments. In this sense, the 'image of the Orient' addresses those aspects of the city which appear essentially Oriental and characteristic of Persian cities in the eyes of the travellers. As these travellers report, the presence of what they call 'Occident' was not exclusively limited to the newly developed northern parts of the city, but was also observable within the citadel which represents the Oriental governmental section of the city. Consequently, in the writings of these travellers, while the 'image' of what they perceived as 'Orient' was undistinguished and mainly present in the old city, the 'image' of the Occident was clearly observable in the newly developed northern part.
