Avenue Vali- ye Asr

the avenue Vali-ye Asr or Valiasr خیابانولیعصر|Khiyābān-e Valiasr is the longest avenue of the the Middle East and one of the oldest road axes of Teheran. It is long approximately 18 km and goes from the Rond-point of Tajrish to north in the place of the railroad ( Meidān-e Rāhāhan ) to the south. This 2 times 2 ways, of north in the south, divide the metropolis into two parts, the western parts and east. The avenue is regarded as one of the ways and the principal shopping malls of Teheran. Vali-ye Asr sees flowing Téhéranais of all ages, which come in the connected restaurants (pizzerias for example) or in the traditional gargotes to taste there Kaleh Pācheh (mixture of meat offals of sheep), or quite simply to walk in the shade of sexagenarian plane trees. These plane trees are planted in jub , the channels with open sky which forward the water of the solid mass of Elbourz to the center of the city.

History

The avenue tells the urban development of Teheran. In 1870, the avenue becomes the major axis of the center of the city. Until in the years 1950, the commercial rich person of the Bazar will build large houses there. At that time, the avenue was still limited by the walls which surrounded Teheran. With the policy of work hausmanniens of Reza Shah, the avenue increases on 1,5 km towards north and is baptized Avenue Pahlavi . This new part of the avenue becomes the center of the imperial district, which becomes one 2nd center town. The téhéranaises big families leave the south and come to be established in this new crested district. The migration of the elites towards north is also partially justified by the search for a better environment. The water of everyday consumption was indeed drawn from the jub , and it was purer upstream.

In the years 1950, under the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, the avenue extends even more towards north, to the current Beheshti avenue. The elites migrate once again towards north, according to the extension of the avenue. This time, the displacement of the elites is facilitated by the arrival of the first pipeline in Teheran, whose oil will make it possible to the rich person to heat their new houses.

In the years 1970, the urbanization progresses as high as possible: the villages of Vanak and Shemiran are integrated into the capital. These villages change downtown, and it is in this part that the occidentalization of Iran wanted by the Shah is most visible. One finds there resturants with Western like celebrates it Chattanooga or of the discotheques.

During the provisional government, the avenue is famous “Mossadegh”. The monks who come to the capacity after the Iranian Révolution will give him his current name: Vali-ye Asr , ولیعصر|the “Master of time” , in reference to the Mahdi, it twelfth Shiite Imam .

The avenue Vali-ye Asr, a space of life for Téhéranais

The avenue Vali-ye Asr is the center various activities in Teheran and accommodates very many stores and restaurants. The avenue is bordered of several large parks (in particular the Mehllat park, one of the largest parks of the Middle-East). Several arts centres of Teheran are located near the avenue. Some of the highways which cross the capital there are directly connected.

It is almost bottled all the day and the evening, until the first hours of the morning. The stores remain late open and the kiosks sell fruit juices, coffee and newspapers. The two sides of the avenue are planted old trees of hundreds of years. At certain places, these trees form a green tunnel which is especially appreciated in summer by the passers by.

After 25 years of Islamic Republic, Téhéranais made this avenue a space of social diversity and sexual within the Iranian company governed by the Islamic laws: the workmen côtoient there the junior managers, the women in Chador the connected young girls, and the young people find themselves there to dredge.

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