Nadezda Zamyatina (p), Ruslan Goncharov

Masafumi Morisugi

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Mojgan Taheri Tafti (p)

Nadezda Zamyatina

This paper examines the conflicts and contradictions embedded in area-based practices aimed at enhancing urban resilience and the problem of defining boundaries and the implications of such practices across multiple scales in the context of Tehran metropolitan area in Iran. In planning urban resilience the issue of scale and boundaries are major challenges as they deals with the questions of who is in or out and what are the implications for resilience at multiple scales. In order to examine localized policies and practices aimed at enhancing urban resilience, we consider the case of urban upgrading and revitalization policies and practices in ‘deteriorated urban areas’ in Tehran metropolitan area. These practices are primarily framed as interventions that are aimed at enhancing urban resilience. We examine the content of these programs and their implications in targeted localities and at larger scales of city and metropolitan area. We argue that Tehran upgrading and revitalization programs for deteriorated urban areas have resulted in spatial redistribution of social vulnerability, mostly from inside formal urban boundaries to the areas outside these boundaries.

Masafumi Morisugi (p), Kazunori Nakajima, Naoki Sakamoto

Mojgan Taheri Tafti

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