« Tehran was once called the city of plane trees and it was possible for a traveller to complain about the density of trees and gardens around it, hiding it from visitors (Bell, 1928), who were searching inside these green walls hoping to unveil some remainder of the exotic and sleepy Orient of a magical past. Now, Tehran is a giant metropolis which has devoured its green borders and whose two revolutions and many more upheavals this century have changed the city and shaken the world aroun… more