Tehran Subway and Daily Life

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The aim of this study is to scrutinize the daily lives of citizens of in Tehran subway, considered as a social space. The research method includes both documentary and ethno methodology, with emphasis on a theoretical approach to daily life. The emergence and construction of reality of subway in a city is something more than a mere means of transport that can contain environmental, economic, and psychological advantages. Besides, subway develops fundamental social changes on our behavior and daily routines. And essentially, it even affects urban geometric space, concepts such as near and far, the place value and property prices and subsequently human urban population. The results indicate that the Tehran subway has been the source of changes in people's everyday lives, since it has reduced social distances in positive and negative directions.

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Iranian Journal of Anthropological Research
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 10
October 2016
Pages 99-116

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