Dwelling in Tehran metropolis

This article tries to study the status of settlement situation in Tehran metropolis with an emphasis on urban space. Its theoretical basis is based on Martin Heidegger ideas about dwelling. In his view dwellingmeans to care and protect human beings from each other, from heaven and earth and is maintenance meanings. The method of study is qualitative.The results shows: In Naseri Darul Khalafa[1] because of continuity, density and diversity of space and determinacy of the city boundaries there was the possibility of come together of four elements. But gradually several processes weakened the possibility of Settlement which includes: 1. exogenous development causes dispersion of residential neighborhoods and separates them from each other. 2. Highways, non-level intersections and metro minimize the possibility of get together and offer individualism and loneliness. 3. The logic of capital in many areas, causing the loss of public spaces and private domains is increasing. As a result of this process, the possibility of being together in parts of urban space is lost and togetherness is limited to houses. 4. Consumption spaces be more day by day, they addition to remove of subordinates, cause individual stories take shape to the actors in this field and democratic participation will be undertone. 5. Despite the multiplicity of historical events, they are not carved as memorial in the urban space and thus the city is not reminiscent of historical memory.