Study of the city in political geography and geopolitical with an emphasis on Gottman and Cox's theory
Subject Areas :hassan kamran 1 , 2 , yashar zaki 3 , 4 , 5
1 - University of Tehran
2 - University of Tehran
3 - University of Tehran
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5 - University of Tehran
Keywords: city , political geographers , geopolitics , Cox, Gottmann,
Abstract :
"City" is not only a political-spatial phenomenon, but also a geopolitical phenomenon which is the basis for the achievement of national power. Due to its specific characteristics, the city is the main place to meet the mental, intellectual and physical needs of human beings in every country. Therefore, it can be said that cities and towns are responsible for maintaining the financial and material resources of the country. Cities on a global scale are powerful political spaces that enter the process of competition and interaction by controlling local events at the regional and global levels. Hence, the dramatic growth of large cities suggests that the state has provided a model for the development of the future of political geography. In other words, As the population increases The transformation of many non-urban spaces into urban space As well as by designing new patterns and working strategies for organizing urban space And the increasing political and strategic role of cities can be acknowledged Which has become the focal point of studies in geopolitical and geopolitical geography But how this phenomenon is studied from the perspective of geo-political geopolitics and geopolitics, The question that the present paper deals with The results of this research by analytical-descriptive method show that The phenomenon of the city has been studied not only in one dimension, but also in multidimensional forms, both theoretical and applied by geographers and geopolitics