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The central square of Tehran, Iran was built in 1867 as part of a process of urban reformation initiated under the monarch Nasreddin Shah Qajar. Called Meydan-e Toopkhaneh (Cannon House Square), the Square marked the northern extent of the old, walled city and the entrance to the modern, planned city to be built to the north.
The Qajar palace was (and is still) located directly south of the square, while an old neighborhood alongside it was demolished and made into a city park, displacing the area's residents but giving Tehran's Europeanized elite a place to promenade. A block away, meanwhile,...
Brooklyn (and most of Long Island) once constituted the only examples of 'prairie'
in America's Northeast. Every now and then, you can see remnants of it poking
through, in this case, near the Grain Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn...