The Effect of Rentier Economy on the Urban Space Organization with an Emphasis on Malls and Large Business Spaces (Case Study: 1st and 5th Districts of Tehran)

Faranak Saeedifard (), Neda Bagheri (), Seyed Hosein Shahed (), Akram Babai (), Sina SalmanzadehAuthor-Email, Masoumeh Jaafari (), Nobakht Sobhani () and Mehrnoush Ghodsi ()
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Faranak Saeedifard: Management department ,University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Neda Bagheri: Geography and Urban Planning of Shahid Beheshti University
Seyed Hosein Shahed: PhD in college geography and spatial planning and entrepreneurship in rural area from Beheshti university, Tehran, Iran
Akram Babai: Master of urban planing from Imam khomani IImam khomeini International University
Sina SalmanzadehAuthor-Email: Geography and Urban Planning of Shahid Beheshti University
Masoumeh Jaafari: Department of urban planning, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
Nobakht Sobhani: Young Researchers and Elites club, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Mehrnoush Ghodsi: Department of Architecture, Hashtgerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Alborz, Iran

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, 442-455

Abstract: In the backdrop of a rentier economy, the malls connect the place to the global production network, increase consumerism and rent-seeking through improper locationing. Malls have been described as "urban spaces","enterprise-oriented spaces","a space for consumerism","a physical space for loitering","space of the simulacrum","profitable and alien spaces with the structure of a pan option", and "a new public space". The metropolitan space of Tehran has become a commodity for the goals of the rentier and speculative economy because of the "disembedded" capitalist system, land rent and density sale combined with construction of malls and real estate bourgeoisie. The manifestations of this rentier economy can be analyzed in the economic, physical, environmental, social, and political-management structures. In this research, Districts 1 and 5 have greatly been affected by the flow and relations of rentier economy, especially the real estate bourgeoisie, and have had the most spatial changes in Tehran metropolis in terms of construction of malls and their locationing. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used for SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis. SWOT-AHP model was used to describe the goals and strategies. The final result of the evaluation of internal and external factors indicates that the most important strategies for the organization of urban spaces with the approach of human-oriented cities is to locate malls outside the cities, to reduce land and housing rents, to prevent the locationing of malls based on "land rent", to protect human-oriented spaces, and to avoid the destruction of local economy through brandism which is promoted by malls.

Keywords: Rentier economy; disembedded political economy; embedded political economy; spatial organization of the city; mall; Tehran (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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