Piyāmadʹhā-yi ijtimāʻī-i muhājiratʹhā-yi rūstāʼī bih shahr-i Tihrān, 1342-1357

This study examines the social consequences of rural-to-urban migration to Tihrān between 1342 and 1357 in the Iranian solar calendar, a formative period spanning the land-reform programmes of the 1960s through the eve of the 1979 revolution. Ḥusayn Ābādiyān investigates the principal drivers behind successive waves of migration, attending closely to the land reforms, the weakening of the rural agrarian economy, and the surge in oil revenues that fuelled unbalanced development planning. The author argues that excessive concentration on the expansion and modernisation of Tihrān's urban fabric, combined with neglect of the countryside, propelled vast numbers of rural inhabitants towards the capital. A central theme is the emergence and rapid growth of shanty settlements on the city's southern fringes, alongside the formation of a new middle class whose structural tensions with the prevailing order carried lasting political, economic, and social repercussions.