[custom_adv] Vali-e Asr Street is one of the main urban elements of Tehran City in the north-south direction. The starting point of the axis is Rah-ahan (railway) Square (52 23 51 E- 35 39 33 N) and its finishing point is Tajrish Square (52 23 51 E- 35 4824 N. Rah-ahan Square has an altitude of 1117m above sea level which amounts to 1615m in Tajrish Square. [custom_adv] Emergence of Vali-e Asr Street should be regarded as heralding the start of modernism in the history of urban planning and architecture. The street as one of the lifelines of Tehran was first drawn in a map by Engineer Abdolghaffar Najmolmolk in the year 1309 LAH (1891 AD). [custom_adv] It was a path going through gardens in a south to north direction. The period was concurrent with the early years of structural alterations which had begun halfway through Naseroddin Shah's rule from the 1280s LAH on i.e. when urban planning underwent changes as one of the manifestations of cultural developments. [custom_adv] Consistent with such changes, big gardens around Tehran which were built based on a geometrical design, became included in the urban fabric and Vali-e Asr axis Street considered as part of the geometrical axes within the gardens. [custom_adv] Old residential hubs in the northern parts of Tehran such as Tajrish and Vanak both regarded as historical villages near Tehran are related to existing capacities of the extension of Vali-e Asr from within city limits to its outskirts. [custom_adv] But the main period of development in Vali-e Asr dates back to the start of the present century SAH which was simultaneous with the toppling of Qajar dynasty and the formation of a new bureaucratic regime. At this time, Tehran expanded to outside the Qajar limits at a fast pace. [custom_adv] The new regime transferred royal palaces and administrative offices from Golestan Palace to Marmar Palace and its governmental compound near Vali-e Asr Street. On the other hand, it avoided usage of summer residences of Qajar dynasty in Shemiran only to build a summer mansion of its own near Darband called Saad Abad Complex which is regarded as another core for the development of Vali-e Asr Street. [custom_adv] Linkage of Saad Abad with Marmar Palace was the goal of Reza Shah, founder of the new regime i.e. the shortest possible distance from the northernpalace to the southern one.
