Megastructure Reloaded: A New Technocratic Approach to Housing Development in Ekbatan, Tehran

Under the USA’s free-market foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tehran Redevelopment Company (TRC) in collaboration with a New York firm, Starrett Housing Corporation, undertook one of the most extensive and innovative Middle Eastern public housing projects.* As part of Tehran’s masterplan de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohamad Sedighi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-04-01
Series:ARENA Journal of Architectural Research
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Online Access:https://ajar.arena-architecture.eu/articles/56