Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Zahra Alizadehbirjandi ¹
• mohaddeseh ziya ²

¹ Faculty member of Birjand University History Department

² Master student in the history of Islamic Iran

Abstract

Urban semiology and its role in explaining the urban identity of Tehran during the Qajar era

Abstract

Cities, like humans, have independent and different identities. Urban identity includes the characteristics that distinguish a city from other cities. The issue of urban identity plays a key role not only in identifying cities but also in the process of identifying citizens and strengthening urban culture. The identity bases of cities have been formed under the influence of natural, artificial, human and historical events. These elements play an important role as meaningful signs in reading the meanings hidden in the physical space of the city and understanding the differences and continuity of cities.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the explanatory signs of urban identity in Tehran during the Qajar period and how they function.

The method of this research is historical-interpretive and based on the approach of urban semiology. In this approach, the existence of signs and meanings of physical elements for reading the environment and understanding the identity-building components of Tehran in the Qajar era has been investigated.

The findings of this study indicate that symbolic symbols, due to their historical, cultural and mythological origins, have a greater explanatory capacity in representing the identity components of Tehran in the Qajar era. In the process of semiotics of Tehran urban spaces in this period, some inconsistencies of signification and function can be understood only through historical significations

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• Urban semiology"
• Urban ldentity"
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• Urban spaces"
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• Tehran "
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• Qajar"

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