Isfahan is in an explosive mood since 1976. Decisions of construction and expansion of an urban Metrorail system, and the ‘New Towns’ approach for peripheral residential settlements have to be combined in a consistent metropolitan policy.
Isfahan Valley has a clear directionality marked and reinforced by the watershed system. The historical ‘satellite’ towns suggest an underlying reticular pattern that has to be enhanced and used for metropolitan structuring.
The outcome is simple, sound and consistent. Up to the academic environment to assume and promote it, and the administrative authorities to implement it.