{"id":991,"date":"2014-06-17T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/?page_id=991"},"modified":"2014-06-17T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:10:49","slug":"pardisan-park-conference-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/other-stuff\/pardisan-park-conference-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardisan Park Conference Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pardisan is a total environmental park in the image\u00a0<\/span>of the Persian garden, a paradise in the desert. It\u00a0<\/span>is the unique conception of Iran\u2019s Department of\u00a0<\/span>Environment and is designed to bring all the\u00a0<\/span>organisations traditionally concerned with nature \u2013<\/span>zoos, botanical gardens, and museums of natural\u00a0<\/span>history, etc. \u2013 under the aegis of one institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The centre is part of a multi purpose complex,\u00a0primarily an educational, research and cultural centre. A utopian vision of designing communities by giving a central role to nature.\u00a0A\u00a0huge park that could contain micro-ecologies representing the five major climate
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A pardisan is a concept, a presentation of world order. An Iranian concept on viewing the world, reflecting unity of man and nature. All the world bio-climatic and cultural zones set within the context of the universe and based upon the theme of sustainable adaptation and\u00a0symbiotic.<\/p>\n

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the scheme for Pardisan emerged. It would be a planar simulation of the world with Iran in the center. It would include the continents Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Australia. It ‘would\u00b7 be bisected by the Equator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tehran wanted to recreate the ecological richness of the whole world in one park.<\/p>\n

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Pardisan is a total environmental park in the image\u00a0of the Persian garden, a paradise in the desert. It\u00a0is the unique conception of Iran\u2019s Department of\u00a0Environment and is designed to bring all the\u00a0organisations traditionally concerned with nature \u2013zoos, botanical gardens, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"parent":282,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991\/revisions\/1011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}