Tehran’s Cultural Development Capacities

Cities as the greatest symbols of human civilization embrace cultural landscape as a result of human and nature common throughput which explains human relationship with its environment and history. Heritage landscape of cities explain historic, religious, spiritual and artistic life styles of its residents and is considered as descriptions for activity and approaches of previous people in religion, art, architecture, environment and etc. several places in cities such as museums, manmade relics, historic places, cultural centers, green areas, shopping centers, recreation and sport areas, etc are required resources for touristic development of a city which has a great overlap with heritage cultural landscape, natural and built landscape. Tehran with its significant historic status as an influential metropolis has a great heritage cultural perspective which can be used as urban touristic capacities. Many of Tehran heritage cultural components have been destroyed during city development and its physical rehabilitation. Thus Tehran heritage cultural touristic capacities will decrease if this trend continues. It seems that this capacity has been ignored due to the speed of rehabilitation and city developing trend whose continuing will accentuate Tehran urban tourism. This article reviews the significance of cultural heritage landscape in sustainability and prosperity of Tehran urban tourism.