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Khosro
Khorshidi
In my teenage
years, otherwise
said “the good
old days”
whenever the
subject of going
to Shemiran came
up we were
bubbling with
joy; looking
forward to see
lot of trees and
gather fruits
and watching
colorful &
beautiful birds
all around. A
lot of big &
small springs
running through
the gardens and
sometimes
creating big or
small waterfalls
due to the level
difference
between the
gardens. Wow how
beautiful it
was.
Still we were
those travelling
to Shemiran
coming from a
beautiful city,
with a glowing
nature and
alleys full of
brooks, Chinar
trees and
Acacias. There
was a
significant
difference in
Shemiran’s
nature which
gave us new life
and mesmerized
during our
promenade.
Standing on the
heights of
Amaniyeh and
Elahiyeh a vast
valley spread at
the foothills of
Alborz. You
could have
spotted housings
with authentic
architecture and
beautiful gable
roofs in that
vast valley.
But today you
see nothing but
unidentified
buildings, which
are third &
forth hand
imitations of 18th
and 19th
century European
architecture. We
replaced that
immensity of God
with this
ill-sorted
architecture. We
tore down
gardens with
trees as old as
few centuries
and replaced
them with these
unidentifiable
buildings in
that same old
areas. And now
looking down
from the heights
of Elahiyeh we
whisper to
ourselves: How
Green was my
Valley.
Wish our
architects and
urbanists who
were inevitably
in the process
of the
development of
this city would
have used their
knowledge and
the advanced
modern
technology to
build a modern
city on the
heights of the
holy
Bibi-Shahrbanoo
so
internationally
they had a place
in today’s
urbanism. Also
from that modern
city we could
have seen the
immensity of the
vast valley
which God
offered us and
we couldn’t put
a price on it.
Without any
doubt the
greatness of
that valley,
with its
geographical
position would
have blown its
freshness to the
depth of that
modern city. You
can still watch
this greatness
from the heights
of Qasr-Firouzeh
& the holy
Bibi-Shahrbanoo.
And with this we
would have
demolished this
eternal
obsession of
living in the
north or south
of the city. We
cruelly
destroyed the
vst valley of
Tehran as far as
Shahr-Ray &
Varamin. In
truth we
crucified our
trees for these
earthly desires.
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