Résumé Sepideh Shafaei
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