Case Study Hashtgerd New Town

Hashtgerd New Town

Hashtgerd New Town

The Young Cities Project is not a research on, but for the development of the New Town of Hashtgerd. Therefore the Project is carried out in close co-operation with local, regional, and national bodies. Hashtgerd is planned as an overspill city for the fast emerging Megacity of Karaj and is situated approximately 30 km west of Karaj and 68 km west of Tehran. » Map

New Towns in Iran

The City of Karaj is located about 38 km west of the City of Tehran. It is situated on the Karaj River, at the southern foot of the Elburz Mountains. It is an important transportation and industrial centre on the main road and rail routes between Tehran and populous north-western Iran and the Caspian Sea. Manufactures include chemicals, fertilizer, and processed agricultural goods. In 1950, Karaj had a population of 7,000 and since then it grew rapidly. Today Karaj has more than 1,2 million inhabitants and has been the fastest growing city in Iran in the last decades » Growth of Karaj. As a result of the fast growth of population, the social and technical infrastructures are heavily overloaded.

Master plan of Hashtgerd New Town

The New Town of Hashtgerd currently has about 40,000 inhabitants and is projected for 0.5 million in the near future. Hashtgerd is supposed to be the largest of the thirty currently planned New Towns in Iran .

At the moment the Iranian and German partners are mutually developing three planning and building Pilot Projects respectively as the core of the research project. Based on conclusions drawn from the three Pilot Projects the consortium aims at an abstraction and generalisation of scientific results for regional and international transfer.