Preliminary discussions on the urbanization of rural areas in modern Iran

In this translation draft of the first part of the author's recently-published book in Japanese, entitled as "Rural-cities in Contemporary Iran: Revolution, War and the Structural Changes in the Rural Society," we are presenting the preliminary discussions on Iranian middle-sized cities and towns which emerged in these 30 years or so. We start from the explanations of the contents of the above-mentioned book and do the reviewing of the preceding studies, followed by the critical review of the studies on the Iranian revolution in 1979, and the studies on Iran's recent political trends and the tendencies towards the local governance, which was tempered and collapsed with the appearance of President Ahmadīnejād.\nThis consists of the Introduction and the first parts of Chapter 1 of our book, and we are expecting to finish translating the whole contents and to publish it in the near future. We apologize for the shortcomings of this paper, for example some partial lack of correspondence of its bibliography with the main contents, mainly because of the technical reasons.

在作者最近用日语出版的题为《当代伊朗的乡村城市：革命、战争与乡村社会的结构变化》一书第一部分的翻译初稿中，我们呈现了对大约30年来出现的伊朗中小城镇的初步探讨。我们从对上述书籍内容的阐释开始，回顾了先前的研究，接着对1979年伊朗革命的研究以及对伊朗近期政治趋势和地方治理倾向的研究进行了批判性综述，这些研究随着艾哈迈迪内贾德总统的出现而受到冲击并瓦解。 这包括我们书籍的引言和第一章的第一部分，我们期望在不久的将来完成全书内容的翻译并出版。我们为本文的不足之处致歉，例如其参考文献与主要内容部分不对应，这主要是由于技术原因。