The Perspective of Metropolises Management in the Sovereignty of Islamic Republic of Iran

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

yosef zeinolabedin ¹ , zahra shirzad ²

1 - استادیار گروه جغرافیای سیاسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد رشت
2 - کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد رشت، رشته جغرافیای سیاسی

Received: 2009-05-18 Accepted : 2010-03-16 Published : 2010-02-20

Keywords: Iran, Geopolitics, Metropolises, Global Cities, sovereignty, Political Geography,

Abstract :

The increasing urban population process and its effects on the increasing metropolises is one of the important geographical discussions that its effects face the countries sovereignty with some challenges. Because, planning economical, social and security issues and biological, social and criminal adventures are not an easy task for each government. In Iran, like the most countries of the world, after increasing urbanization and appearance of economical, social and structural problems of metropolises, had been noticed some sovereignty-related challenges. Noticing this subject, the main question of this paper is "How is the process of metropolises perspective and it has what effects on the sovereignty of Islamic Republic of Iran?" with this hypothesis that the metropolises number are increasing and this process makes some changes in economical, political, social, ...fields of the sovereignty of Islamic Republic of Iran; we will study the differences between metropolises and global cities. Also the purpose of this paper is to clear the functions of metropolises and global cities. At last, in the research findings, generally, Iran's metropolises landscape will be studied from geopolitical point of view.