Download or read book Tehran written by Ali Madanipour and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1998-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated to the city of Tehran. Once held to be one of the capitals of the luxurious Orient - the home of the Peacock Throne - the city is now a giant metropolis with great influence across the Muslim world. Tehran's two revolutions have not only shaken the city but have drawn the fault lines between East and West. Tehran traces the capital's social and physical transformation over the last two centuries - from the Persian empire to the Islamic Republic, from a small town at the centre of a loose collection of provinces to a node in the global economy, from a city dominated by the shah's citadel overlooking a maze of winding streets to an open but polarized matrix of people and places, changes which characterize the tensions of globalization and modernity. To the West, Tehran remains a hidden city, structured by an alien political and religious ideology. The author's first-hand experience of both Iranian culture and of the city of Tehran itself allows him to explore the subtleties of this urban environment with a fine-grained insight. Tehran will become an indispensable guide to any interested in the fabric and history of this city, one of the few world cities which has shaped the course of the Twentieth Century.

Download or read book Governing the Environment written by Peter Munk Christiansen and published by Nordic. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ministerråd, 1996. 370 s. (Nord 1996 : 5) ISBN 92-9120-819-1 Miljøvern som sosial og politisk sak er en av de viktigste utfordringer til de politiske system i alle verdens land i løpet av de siste tiår. Flere land har formulert en miljøpolitikk, inngått internasjonale avtaler om regionalt eller globalt samarbeid. Denne boken presenterer de nordiske lands svar på utfordringene. Boken er resultat av et forskningsprosjekt som ble iverksatt av Nordisk Ministerråd.

Download or read book Towards Environmental Sustainability written by EMIN. TENGSTROEM and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this study consists of an empirical analysis of current Danish, Dutch and Swedish national transport policies along with some policy options for the near future, intended to reduce the present unsustainable character of the national transport systems. The study deals only with passenger transport, primarily on land, rather than freight transport. There exists a distinct focus on environmental sustainability, along with the role of the automobile in transport systems.