The historiography of Tehran landscape in the early 20th century suggests that an organized neighborhood system had functioned in the city, as the main layer of city governance, offer public services, and providing the residents with the sense of community. The formation of the modern state and centralized bureaucracy in 1920-40 vanished the power and authority of the neighborhoods as governance units, but neighborhood-as-community continued to contribute to the social formation of the city dweller’s identities and spatial distribution of its main characteristics. The historiography of Tehran landscape since the 1960s onward includes the researches which approach the territory as organizing factor of social relations and neighborhoods as container of normative solidarity.My paper suggests that the attempt to build/revive the role

Over the past 460 years, Tehran’s population has risen from 15,000  to around 8 million, its area has increased from 4 square kilometers to over 750, and the number of its neighborhoods has increased  from 5 to 374 (In the comprehensive plan of 1992 the proposed number of neighborhoods was set at 524)With the explosive growth of Tehran especially in the last three decades,  many of the markers of Tehran’s identity which gave its citizens a sense of belonging have been neglected, many compromised and others lost.  Amongst them we can count the degradation or loss of neighborhoods-Neighborhoods which, due to their historical background, remind many of Tehran’s older citizens of social and political events, and fond memories of leisure

Longtemps considéré comme un symbole de l’immobilisme de la ville islamique, le quartier est aujourd’hui devenu dans les études ottomanes une échelle privilégiée pour étudier les dynamiques politiques, sociales et culturelles des différentes villes de l’Empire. Je m’interrogerais ici sur la place du quartier, conçu ici comme unité administrative et espace de vie, dans la redéfinition du système de maintien de l’ordre à Istanbul au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles. Si l’institutionnalisation de la police ottomane et son intégration dans l’espace urbain permettent à l’Etat une pénétration accrue au sein du tissu urbain, elles sont loin d’éliminer les mécanismes de contrôle social du quartier qui leur préexistaient. A l’époque d’Abdülhamid II, les coopérations et tensions entre les acteurs étatiques,