In understanding change, history provides the only study material available. A standard challenge in urban research is, however, to overcome more or less trivial empiric renderings in favour of theoretically based conceptualisations. In the following, some effort is made to employ concepts that would encompass spatial as well as social processes, and address current problems of urban developmen...

Ð The introduction of the Washington Consensus involved not simply a swing from state-led to market-oriented policies, but also a shift in the ways in which development problems were framed and in the types of explanation through which policies were justi®ed. Key changes were the partial globalization of development policy analysis, and a shift from historicism to ahistorical performance assess...

Between 1919 and 1939, the conservation of architectural heritage in Spain underwent a radical transformation, which it went from maintaining theoretical principles practice based on romantic historicism, to developing innovative concepts scientific restoration, coinciding with international trends that inspired Charter Athens.
 In these twenty years, an alternative historicist restoration...

Originating from the fields of philosophy and history, term historicism is often used by architectural historians. Aiming to contribute theoretical framework for analysis historicism, paper first explores meaning concept in its native field history. The aligned with recent scholarship which interprets as a worldview deduces three historicist principles - holism, individuality, development. This...

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

Wide-ranging sociological studies have been conducted on the history of Iranian intellectuality and modernism. The findings jointly acknowledge that due to communication with the West and following the effects that was received from modernism, the first generation of Iranian intellectualism was emerged. It is said that having benefited from the translated works in its general concept, i.e. incl...