A high-ranking Iranian delegation held joint meetings at TU Berlin to decide upon crucial aspects within the Strategic Project Dimensions Urban Development & Design as well as Design Structure Energy-Efficiency. The delegation comprised Prof. Dr. Fatemi Aghda (President of BHRC), Eng. Farjami (Deputy Minister, MHUD), Eng. ZakerAlHosseini (CEO of NTDC), Dr. Parhizkar (Vice President of [...]
The workshop proofed to be a highly successful event, mainly concerning the fast resumption of the Project. The number and status of the attending Iranian Project members and the subsequent discussions showed that the Project is highly respected on the Iranian side, even though the period of approval slowed down the Project’s activities noticeable. Another [...]
Berlin, Spring 2007 The Project published a paper in a special issue of the “Trialog - A Journal for Building and Planning in the Third World” -Magazine. The special issues was completly dedicated to Megacities and the Young Cities paper dicussed pros and cons of the New Town concept for modern urban planning in Iran.
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Berlin, 05/09-10/09/2006 From September 5th until 10th 2006 an Iranian-German workshop was held at Technische Universität Berlin. The Iranian delegation participating in the workshop was led by Prof G. Heidarinejad, President of the Building and Housing Research Center, Eng S.M. Mirian, Chairman of the New Towns Development Corporation, Dr T. Parhizkar, Vice-President for Research of [...]
Berlin, 06/09/2006 On the 6th of September 2006 TU Berlin hosted an international symposium addressing the question whether New Towns are a concept for the sustainable development of Megacity regions. Several international experts, academics and practitioners likewise, from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
France, Germany and Egypt were invited to the one-day Symposium in order to [...]
Berlin, 12/07/06 A small festivity took place at the new location of the Young Cities Project Centre and WANACU offices in Carnotstrasse 1A to celebrate the start of the West Asia North Africa Cooperation Unit (WANACU) and to introduce the new offices to the public. The event was very well attended by colleagues of the [...]
Berlin, 13/05/2006 On May 13th 2006, the Project was presented by the Project Centre at the annually “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” (Long Night of Sciences) event of all scientific institutions in Berlin (http://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de). In the Peter-Behrens-Hall, one of the most frequented locations of the night, the Project was present among TU Berlin’s civil engineering department [...]
Berlin, 22/02/2006 On February 22nd 2006, a workshop of the German consortium was held at TU Berlin, addressing the major research questions and applied methodologies of the Project. Members of all of the five Teams worked on the coordination of their single research questions within the consortium and on the adjustment of their research activities [...]
Berlin, 31/01/2006 On January 31st 2006, the Strategic Dimensions’ Teams Urban and Regional Planning as well as Environmental Resources and Quality of the German consortium held a one-day workshop on contemporary urban design paradigms and urban planning trends in Iran. Due to his specific research experience in the field of urban development in Iran Prof [...]
Berlin, 30/11-04/12/2005 The first bilateral workshop held after the approval of the Project took place in Germany from November 28th to December 4th 2005 at TU Berlin. The workshop encompassed three days of workshop sessions, one day of thematic and cultural excursion and one day for bilateral talks aside from the workshop sessions. The workshop [...]
