Welcome to the Young Cities project!

"Young Cities - Developing Energy-Efficient Urban Fabric in the Tehran-Karaj Region" is a five-year German-Iranian research project under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research.  It is directed by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schäfer of Technische Universität Berlin and Dr. Tayebeh Parhizkar of the Building and Housing Research Center, Tehran.

The Young Cities project investigates the possibilities of mitigating climate change through intelligent urban spatial structures, efficient urban infrastructure systems, sensitive architecture, and conducive socio-cultural environments. 

We invite you to browse this website for information about our research objectives, main research activities and preliminary results. For more information please don't hesitate to contact the project management center at TU Berlin (see address below).