This article is due to find out if there is any difference (s) between environmental components in various societies/cultures. The paper is seeking for any answer for the big question of
“what has been the real meaning of shahr (city) in our culture and history according to the Persian language? This will be an introduction to another question as: Is there any difference (s) between the meaning of “city “among different societies and cultures? To approach this goal the meaning of the word “Shahr” is being searched ,basically in “Dehkhoda” Dictionary to find out its roots as well as its synonyms in Persian language. Meanwhile the writer tried to make some kind of interconnection between all these meanings and idioms. The basic idea for writing this article is to open new ways in which we can discover what our urban environments used to be, what they are and what they suppose to be in the future.
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