in this city scenes sounds action piece (issue 30.3), pegah behroozi nobar takes us into zoorabad, an informal hillside neighbourhood near tehran built by rural migrants since the 1960s. drawing on decades of demolition, forced displacement, and shifting waves of residents — from the original squatters to afghan refugees seeking affordable rents — the piece traces how zoorabad’s landowners and tenants have pushed back against the iranian government’s slum-clearance strategy, known locally as the “improving plan.”
read the full piece on Taylor & Francis.
