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Article: IRAN: GOVERNMENT ADDRESSING URBAN HOUSING CRISIS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- February 5, 2001
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In 1979, the number of Iranians living in cities exceeded that of Iranians living outside the cities for the first time, according to the "Atlas d'Iran" by Bernard Hourcade, et al., and by 1996, 61.5 percent of the population had become urban. As the authors note, Kermanshah, Zahedan, Orumieh, Sanandaj, Mahabad, Bandar Abbas, and Khorramabad no longer are the outposts of the central authorities in the non-Persian provinces, but complex cities in themselves. Conurbanations have formed, such as Amol, Babol, and Qaemshahr, and cities like Tehran and Isfahan have spread out and incorporated outlying villages. Villagers' migration to the cities "has not followed a natural ...