Speed Up, Slow Down or Both? Investigating the Contemporary Cities
                                                    
                                    
                                    Subject Areas : 
Space Ontology International Journal
                                    
                                                    
                                                        Azadeh Pourtazak
                                                        
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                                                             Seyed Hossein Bahrainy
                                                        
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                                                    ,
                                                    
                                                        Mohammad Naghizadeh
                                                        
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                                               1 -     PhD. Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
                                               
                                               2 -     Professor, Faculty of fine arts, University of Tehran, Tehran , Iran.
                                               
                                               3 -     Professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran , Iran.
                                               
                                       
                                    
                                                    
                                                        Received: 2017-10-27
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Accepted : 2018-05-17
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Published : 2018-09-01
                                                    
                                    
                                    
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