Contents

• Introduction of Mayor of Tehran 
• Publisher's introduction
• Introduction to the second edition of the Atlas of Tehran Metropolis
• Methodology of preparing the Atlas
• How to use the atlas 
• Chapter 1: Land of Tehran
  • A glance at the geographical history of Tehran 
  • Topography of Tehran 
  • Geology 
  • Geomorphology of Tehran 
  • Faults 
  • Natural vulnerability of Tehran
  • Climate and air pollution
  • Displacement of pollutants
  • Protected regions of Tehran province
  • Water reservoirs
  • Important dams
  • Drinking water resources
  • Water treatment plants
  • Sewage system
  • Energy consumption
  • Telecommunications
  • International position of Tehran metropolis 
• Chapter 2: Population and migration
  • Trend of changes in the population of districts
  • Relative distribution of population in various age groups
  • Cartogram of population and migrant
  • Sex ratio
  • Distribution of population in terms of marital status
  • Average size of the household
  • Population density
  • Religion and religious minorities
  • Migration to Tehran
  • Causes of migration
  • Spatial distribution of migrants 
• Chapter 3: Education 
  • Ratio of literary
  • Number of literate persons in a family
  • Level of education 
• Chapter 4: Activity and employment
  • Active population
  • Rate of economic activities
  • Employment rate
  • Unemployment rate
  • Main job groups
  • Inactive population
  • Dependency ratio 
  • Activity and employment nucleases 
• Chapter 5: Housing
  • Average floor area of residential units 
  • Floor area per capita 
  • Quality of residential units
  • Residential density per unit
  • Number of rooms per a family
  • Property ownership
  • Property value  
• Chapter 6: Transportation
  • History of the metro
  • Private automobiles
  • Inner-city journeys
  • Average journey time
  • Kilometres traveled per hour
  • Average journey speed
  • Ratio of number of vehicles to capacity of vehicles
  • Parking space for vehicles
  • Driving accident
• Chapter 7: Urban facilities and services
  • Recreational services and green spaces
  • Fruits and vegetable markets
  • Fire stations and safety services
  • Waste management
  • Wast
  • Transformation
  • Municipality's communication lines with people
  • Maintenance cost of urban services
• Chapter 8: Urban development
  • Spatial organization of centers of work and activity in Tehran
  • Spatial organization of the city's Central Business District (CBD)
  • System of open and built spaces
  • Open public spaces
  • Typology of urban textures
  • Old areas
  • Old areas and settlement of migrants
  • Valuable historical areas
  • Valuable rural areas
  • Permeability of the urban texture
  • Typology of Fine
  • Main types of land use patterns in the districts
  • Living in the settlements developed around Tehran
  • Residence of low income groups in the settlements developed around Tehran
• Chapter 9: Quality of life
  • Access to educational services
  • Cultural services
  • Health and treatment services
  • Emergency services
  • Recreational and sports services
  • Access to the subway
  • Access to urban facilities and services
  • Social domain quality
  • Housing quality.
  • Bio-environmental quality
  • Quality of life in Tehran.

Tehran Municipality ICT Organization is proud to publish a new version of Tehran metropolis Atlas in line with one of its main responsibilities, which is disseminating information to the public especially information about the city of Tehran. The atlas has been prepared collaboration with a group of professors in University of Tehran and experts of Tehran Municipality. Compared to the previous atlases, this new edition presents more detailed information, which makes it possible for researchers and experts from various fields to dig more detailed information.

Also, the atlas offers the latest urban changes in the form of maps, charts, tables and images, presenting a clearer image of Tehran metropolis.Atlas of Tehran metropolis has been prepared in a way that can be used by a broad range of general and specialist readers. In designing and cartography, we have used concepts and methods that, though specialized, are accessible to general readers as well. The explanations of indexes and the initial analyses provided are meant to help general readers. The Atlas can appeal to Tehran citizens because it describes the situation of each neighborhood and the general condition of the city based on various indexes and from various dimensions. In fact, each map provides an index for each area. We have tried to present a brief analysis with each map so that the situation of the city could be understood from the map itself. Also, we have avoided any value judgment and personal opinion about the indexes.

As stated before. Atlas of Tehran metropolis is a research-applied one, using various scientific indexes. It can thus be useful for the people interested in urban developments in Tehran and the scholars who do research on urban issues. The guide to the indexes presented in the maps is often in quantitative terms so that the latter group may use the data and, if necessary, use the outputs of the analysis.Maybe the most important aspect of this applied atlas is that it presents to planners and urban managers of Tehran a visual-analytic picture of the present status and the past situation of the city. It enables them to clearly understand the existing spatial differences and make more appropriate decisions about the challenges and the weaknesses and strengths of the city in various areas.

To produce the Atlas, a scientific council adopted general policies and principles, defined the chapters, identified methods of offering information and determined the specialist committees. To put the project into operation, ten specialist committees were formed, each responsible for one chapter of the Atlas. The responsibility of each committee was assigned to an authority in the field so that they can use the services of other specialists. Also, another specialist committee was formed to manage manners of offering spatial information and making models for spatial data. However, to boost the quality of the output even more, an attempt was made to use the expertise of other specialists in addition to the members of the specialist committees. To this end, several specialists meetings were held attended by committee members and other specialists from the related fields.