چكيده به لاتين
Urban space, in actuality is a socio-economic product and reflective of political and economic functions of the society. Various socio-economic processes and structures result in the production of different spaces. Countries with oil-based economies have fundamental differences with other countries in terms of their economic and political-economic processes. Adding oil-revenues to the economic cycle creates capital surplus and affects the capital cycles in the country, directing it more towards urban built environments. Therefore urban evolution and space production in such countries are expected to be oriented by oil revenues. This is especially evident in country capitals since they harbor political, economic, social and institutional concentrations. This research studies the metropolis of Tehran as an example of such capitals with the goal to understand the relation between oil revenues and space production.
This research deploys an analytical-descriptive method and uses data and documents along with variables extracted from literature review to analyze the relation between oil revenues and space production in Tehran. Linear regression and Pearson correlation coefficient have been used to determine the meaningfulness of such a relation. Furthermore, the consequences have been analyzed in a descriptive manner.
The results show that there is a strong correlation between the main two criteria of research: oil revenues and space production in the metropolis of Tehran. The key actors in directing capital investment into space production are found out to be the banks, government and municipality. The increase of accessibility to housing, commercialization of urban space and socio-spatial polarization are some the consequences of such a strong relation in the metropolis of Tehran.
Keywords: oil revenues, space production, capital cycle, Tehran metropolis
