ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the case of Tehran in the mid-nineteenth century (starting from the Qajar period 1790–1925) as the main scene for the manifestation of duality between modern and traditional within the Middle Eastern capital's political project. A short introduction delineates the perspectives on the global modernization project. This chapter shows how some planning ideas detached from any connection to their origin and conditions that made them “practically useful” and how these were taken up, circulated, and (re)contextualized in a different place. It will also add the significant changes in its social, political, and spatial structures resulting from the global economy.
