The Role of Government in Shaping the Spatial Structure of Isfahan City during the Safavid period

Subject Areas : Space Ontology International Journal

Lehon Asadi ¹ , Hossein Soltanzadeh ²

1 - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2 - Department of Architecture, Faculty Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-01-31 Accepted : 2019-05-15 Published : 2019-06-01

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