Analysis of the social production of space in the political economy of oil; A Review study

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Javad Imani Shamloo ¹ ( Assistant professor of urban planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz ,Iran )
Mojtaba Rafieian ² ( Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. )

Received: 2023-10-07 Accepted : 2023-11-15 Published : 2023-11-18

Keywords: documentary Analysis, Oil-led Economy, Political Economy of Space, Economic Rent, Space developments,

Abstract :

 Cities and especially metropolises, due to the concentration of power and wealth factors, play anirreplaceable role in the developments of the contemporary world, in such a way that cities, due to theconcentration of capital - especially in the form of fixed capital - are considered as an important source for theflow of profit, which this flow through It is realized by political forces and mainly in favor of capitalist groups;Therefore, it is obvious that the metropolises under the oil system produce their style and spatial-functionalstructure corresponding to their economic and political situation, according to the specific politicalcharacteristics, so the exploration of the pattern of social-urban relations in the oil economy is the goal of thisresearch. . For this purpose, using a critical approach, historical documents in the socio-spatial field have beenanalyzed. The results of this study show that the formation of unequal social relations and speculative socialrelations grows in the framework of the rent system, and these inequalities continue to show themselves in thebody and urban structure after passing through the smoothness of the sp. 

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