The study of urban construction of Isfahan during the Safavid period

Throughout history, urban life and development have always owed specific ideas in human political and ideological beliefs and specific methods and opinions for building societies and a comfortable human life. Suggestions and opinions proposed by scholars in different eras have resulted in different plans and patterns for organizing urban environment. Isfahan, with such a rich background, is not an exception.
The present article supposes that Isfahan is created based on idealism, naturalism ideologies and utopianism school. It refers to key issues of this school applicable to Isfahan urban construction.
This approach is explained using a descriptive, documentary method and statistical data acquired from valid resources.
Finally, it is emphasized that Isfahan reaches a flourishing peak in urban construction in the form of ideological utopia during Safavid era by Shah Abbas the great and Sheikh Baha’I. Safavid capital uses all available principles to reach the utopia which is the ultimate goal of every school.