Shahr-e Jadid-e Hashtgerd

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Hashtgerd New Town (Persian شهر جدید هشتگرد; . Engl Shahr -e -e Jadīd Hashtgerd ) is the largest planned New Town in Iran in the province of Alborz. It is located in the south of the old Hashtgerd, about 30 km west of the city of Karaj million and about 60 km west of Tehran megacity. Hashtgerd New Town was founded by the Iranian state urban development authority in 1993, had in 2000 accommodate around 40,000 inhabitants and by 2016 to 500,000 inhabitants.

Young Cities Project - New Towns

The Megacity Tehran with her now about 14 million inhabitants increasingly unmanageable. The social and environmental problems continue to grow. Even surrounding sub-centers as the biggest sleeping city in the world, Karaj, can not keep up with the dramatic increase in population. Funded by the Iranian and German governments develop Scientists at the Research Centre for Construction and Housing of Iran and the Technical University of Berlin for this reason, since 2005 the Hash Gerd New Town. Objectives in the plans are the adaptation and testing of innovative technologies in construction, earthquake resistance and improve the quality of construction in New Towns in general and the development of sustainable urban planning solutions and two urban scenarios for the development of a pilot project.