TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soufiani,Hamidreza Mahboubi
TI  - Developing Iran: company towns, architecture, and the global powers 
T2  - Routledge research in architectural history
SN  - 9781032431123
AV  - NA9053.C57 S68 2024
U1  - 711.40955 S68 2024 23/eng/20230809
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Company town architecture
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Company towns
KW  - Planning
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Metal trade
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1945-1979
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1941-1979
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Iran's oil company towns -- Gachsaran oil company town -- Arya Mehr steel complex -- Aryashahr steel company town -- Sarcheshmeh copper complex -- Sarcheshmeh copper company town
N2  - "This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II. The book's narrative builds upon a tripartite research design that chronologically traces the formation and development of the oil, steel, and copper industries, respectively favoured by Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States in this part of the world. By applying three sets of comparative studies, the book provides critical vantage points to three different ideological design paradigms: postcolonial regionalism, socialist universalism, and rationalist modern nation-building. From a global political context, the book contributes to the disclosure of new information about the geopolitical confrontation of these three nations in the Global South to increase their sphere of influence after the second World War. Furthermore, it demonstrates how post-war architectural modernism was adopted by each power and adapted to their ideological mind-frame to fulfil distinct social, cultural, political, and economic targets. This book examines multiple interconnections between architecture, politics, and industrial development by adopting a transdisciplinary approach based on comprehensive fieldwork, site surveys and the analysis of original multilingual documents. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations and Middle Eastern studies"--
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