Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Oil Industry and Britain: Prelude -- 1 Iran's Oil Company Towns -- Introduction -- The Advent of the Modern Oil Industry in Iran -- From Camps to Company Towns: The British Military Board Style (1908-27) -- The Military Board Style in the Persian Oil Towns -- British Planning and Quasi-Colonial Development of the Oil Fields (1928-51) -- The Advent of Semi-Detached Houses
Modern Urban Planning and Professional Design Skills -- James Mollison Wilson -- Wilson and Planning Abadan -- Development of the Oil Fields -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Gachsaran Oil Company Town -- Introduction -- The Oil Diplomacy Under New Arrangements -- The Oil Consortium and the New Phase of Architecture and Planning -- British Postwar Strategies and Tropical Modernism -- Cold War and the Decline of The Empire -- Modern Tropical Architecture -- Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry: The Cases of Africa, India, and Kuwait -- Jane Drew in Iran: Gachsaran Oil Company Town
The Beginning of a Commission -- Gachsaran -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Steel Industry and the Soviet Union: Prelude -- 3 Arya Mehr Steel Complex -- Introduction -- History of the Steel Industry in Iran -- The Vicissitudes of Iran-US Relations (1954-63) -- From Modernisation Theory to Protectionism -- Economic Recession -- Strengthening Tehran-Moscow Relations -- Peaceful Transition to Socialism -- The Détente -- Reforms and Heavy Industrialisation -- Steel Mill Complex: A Socialist Package -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Aryashahr Steel Company Town
Introduction -- From Sotsgorod to Communist Paradise: The History of Socialist Architecture and Planning -- Pre-Stalinism -- Socialist Utopians -- Stalinism -- Post-Stalin Decades -- Communist Paradise: A Return to Modernism -- Modern Microrayons -- The Socialist Modernists in Iran: Aryashahr Steel Town -- Township Design -- Transplantation and Microrayons Modification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Copper Industry and the United States: Prelude -- 5 Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex -- Introduction -- Formation of Anglo-Iranian Copper Company -- Iranian Selection Trust
From French Involvement to Copper Consortium -- New Partnership With the United States: Anaconda and the Formation of a State-Owned Copper Industry -- Iran-US Relations After 1970 -- US Mining Consultant in Iran -- SCM Co. & Anaconda Contract -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Sarcheshmeh Copper Company Town -- Introduction -- The Advent of a Copper Town: British Selection Trust in Sarcheshmeh (1968-70) -- The Arrival of the French Agencies at Sarcheshmeh (1971-2) -- The American Phase of Planning the Township (1973-8)
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Architecture and the Postwar American Rationalism: Modular Prefabricated Housing
