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Drawing on sociological approaches to urbanism and secularization, as well as the affective turn in anthropology, this article explores the implementation of secular policies in Iran after the 1936 Unveiling Decree. I argue that constructing transparent social relations reflects the emergence of a new level of secular binds and relies upon the modalities of urban infrastructure and architecture. I find that modernization and secularization in Iran are interlinked by transformations in urban planning that tended to eliminate sites of ambiguity and to homogenize structures and forms of interaction in public and domestic spaces. The article makes use of autobiographical narratives that give witness to manifest changes in the urban atmosphere between the 1930s and 1950s. I will show how the Pahlavi regime took an active role in attempting to build a secular city by invoking segmentations and divisions in urban spaces to promote a secular atmosphere and limit religious ideas.

This paper is an empirical investigation on how cities use urban renovation projects to adapt to structural economic change. We use methodological triangulation with case study evidence from Brussels to investigate causal links between the governance and the implementation of a large ongoing urban renovation programme that started in 1993. Having classified all investments in our database according to a list of urban adaptation tools, we are able to document how the governance of the programme influenced a) the allocation of funds to different adaptation tools; b) the content of intangible investments; c) the link between tangible and intangible investments. We conclude that urban renovation in Brussels is similar to policies in other cities in that it invested substantial resources both at the top and the bottom of adaptation governance, but that a disconnection between bottom-up and top-down strategies risks foregoing potential complementarities and synergies. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Wird die technische Stadt des 20. Jahrhunderts vor allem bestimmt durch die Vorherrschaft des Sehens und der Sichtbarkeit, durch die Hegemonie raum-zeitlicher Ordnungen? Reden ihre uniformen Räume zu uns allein im visuellen Vokabular funktionaler Neutralität, während partizipatorische, involvierte Erfahrungsweisen der nächsten Umwelt verschwinden ? Worin bestehen ihre Identität als ein Ort, ihre konkreten und symbolischen Konstruktionen des Raumes, ihr soziales und kulturelles Gedächtnis? Oder ist sie zum überall gleichen, uniform ausgestatteten Transitraum, zum Nicht-Ort einer Übermoderne geworden? Der Autor greift solche Fragen auf, indem er an die Anfänge der urbanen Moderne im 20. Jahrhundert, an die Epochenschwelle von 1910, zurückgeht und sie an die Bildende Kunst, die Literatur, die Architektur- und Kulturtheorie seit dem frühen italienischen Futurismus richtet.