The heart of Tehran - a photo on Flickriver

Tehran city skyline by Chamran highway going under the metropolis along the 3km long Towhid tunnel, Iran.

Despite an apparent animosity, a significant number amongst the Iranian elite conceal big reverence and admiration for the United States and in fact encourage their children and national talents to study there, as opposed to, for example, learning from Chinese success stories. One of many unfortunate results of this is the disastrous urban planning models that get forcefully injected into Iranian cities: e.g. instead of efficient and cheap public transportation systems working like clockworks (as those doing wonders for first and second-tier Chinese cities), Iranian municipalities insist on exclusively building ever larger and multi-layered urban highways, centering their models on expanding the usable surface for individual vehicles, rather than investing on smart public transportation systems. A completely unsustainable and failing model as witnessed in most large US cities. Meanwhile, the metro and bus systems tend to lag demand and/or the times by 5-10 and 10-20 years, respectively, at least in my personal observations.

My hope is more amongst the Iranian elite can give up their (often racial-based) prejudices and see through the negative propaganda against China, so they can get themselves to learn from systems that effectively turn cars into totally optional items.

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Taken in: Iran / Ostān-e Tehrān / Meydān-e Jomhūrī (show map)

Taken on: December 28, 2019

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