Résumé Azam Khatam
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