How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy
Aim: This article is grounded in the concept of "space" as a key to understanding urban relations. It explores how space is not merely a physical entity but is produced through social, economic, and political dynamics. The focus is on examining how dominant academic discourses, such as tho...
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| description | Aim: This article is grounded in the concept of "space" as a key to understanding urban relations. It explores how space is not merely a physical entity but is produced through social, economic, and political dynamics. The focus is on examining how dominant academic discourses, such as those in urban planning, architecture, and geography, conceptualise space. It also critiques how urban development plans serve the political-economic system by regulating and controlling activities through spatial strategies.Materials and Methods: To answer the questions and advance the discussion, the present article, in its methodology section, considers the city as an epistemological concept, attempting to utilise phenomenology (which deals with the relationship between city residents and their place of residence) in support of an analytical study. And abandons logic in favour of a dialectical study, and what makes dialectical encounter with space possible is a methodological encounter with it. While the text relies on the entanglement of method, theory and spatial reality.Findings: The article reveals that development plans are inherently political. Rather than being neutral, they reflect broader trends in architecture and urban planning that facilitate the manipulation of human living environments. It argues that each politico-economic system produces its own space, which inevitably leads to various forms of expropriation. These expropriations are integral to how space is produced and controlled, enabling capital to circulate more effectively.Conclusion: To move towards the alternative theoretical basis of the present article, namely the economic-political reading of space, it is pointed out that although space is considered as a tool for domination and control, but also has possibilities, differences and resistances.Innovation: A reading of spatial relations from the perspective of political economy discourse can provide the groundwork for a critical understanding of the mechanisms of space production and reproduction in Iran. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-85e9cd11271d4927b29c0528b9f2a5c22025-08-21T13:52:21ZfasHakim Sabzevari Universityمطالعات جغرافیایی مناطق خشک2228-71672981-19102025-08-0116608911110.22034/jargs.2024.475205.1135220407How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political EconomyZahra Rahmati0Mojtaba Rafieian1Hashem Dadashpoor2Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Arts, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Arts, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Arts, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranAim: This article is grounded in the concept of "space" as a key to understanding urban relations. It explores how space is not merely a physical entity but is produced through social, economic, and political dynamics. The focus is on examining how dominant academic discourses, such as those in urban planning, architecture, and geography, conceptualise space. It also critiques how urban development plans serve the political-economic system by regulating and controlling activities through spatial strategies.Materials and Methods: To answer the questions and advance the discussion, the present article, in its methodology section, considers the city as an epistemological concept, attempting to utilise phenomenology (which deals with the relationship between city residents and their place of residence) in support of an analytical study. And abandons logic in favour of a dialectical study, and what makes dialectical encounter with space possible is a methodological encounter with it. While the text relies on the entanglement of method, theory and spatial reality.Findings: The article reveals that development plans are inherently political. Rather than being neutral, they reflect broader trends in architecture and urban planning that facilitate the manipulation of human living environments. It argues that each politico-economic system produces its own space, which inevitably leads to various forms of expropriation. These expropriations are integral to how space is produced and controlled, enabling capital to circulate more effectively.Conclusion: To move towards the alternative theoretical basis of the present article, namely the economic-political reading of space, it is pointed out that although space is considered as a tool for domination and control, but also has possibilities, differences and resistances.Innovation: A reading of spatial relations from the perspective of political economy discourse can provide the groundwork for a critical understanding of the mechanisms of space production and reproduction in Iran.https://jargs.hsu.ac.ir/article_220407_7afa4d623be52554861944f41659d77f.pdfpolitical economy of spaceproduction of spacecapital accumulationurban development plans and programsdisplacement |
| spellingShingle | Zahra Rahmati Mojtaba Rafieian Hashem Dadashpoor How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy مطالعات جغرافیایی مناطق خشک political economy of space production of space capital accumulation urban development plans and programs displacement |
| title | How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy |
| title_full | How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy |
| title_fullStr | How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy |
| title_full_unstemmed | How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy |
| title_short | How is Space Produced? Reflections on Urban Development Plans and Programs from the Discourse of Political Economy |
| title_sort | how is space produced reflections on urban development plans and programs from the discourse of political economy |
| topic | political economy of space production of space capital accumulation urban development plans and programs displacement |
| url | https://jargs.hsu.ac.ir/article_220407_7afa4d623be52554861944f41659d77f.pdf |
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