fateme piri; saeed amanpour; Abolfazl Meshkini
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The present study aims to introduce a suitable housing investment model in Ahvaz city based on barriers and incentive policies. The present study is applied in terms of purpose, exploratory-explanatory in nature, and descriptive-analytical in terms of implementation method. Documentary and field studies ...
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The present study aims to introduce a suitable housing investment model in Ahvaz city based on barriers and incentive policies. The present study is applied in terms of purpose, exploratory-explanatory in nature, and descriptive-analytical in terms of implementation method. Documentary and field studies and interviews with experts (Delphi method) were used to collect data. Content analysis method and ATLAS TI software were used to analyze the data. Based on the findings the most important challenges and obstacles to achieve the desired housing investment model are environmental issues and water and drought crises. On the other hand, some policies and opportunities such as changing the way real estate firms receive transaction fees to a fixed transaction fee, acquiring brownfield land, and transferring their warehouse and industrial sectors outside the city limits to create the city's internal capacity for housing development are policies and opportunities that, if implemented and recognized, can somehow control the housing market. While in other countries there are various criteria for appropriate housing location; one of the most successful ones is affordability criteria. In these criteria, in addition to physical criteria, attention is also paid to social, cultural, and ecological sustainability of supportive complexes, improving the quality of life of residents, and ultimately establishing spatial social justice.
Abolfazl Meshkini; Elham Amirhajlou
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Urban development projects as a powerful and innovative political process is a result of the global neoliberalism project, which matures under unequal geographical development by covering up real social relations. This project infiltrates opposing but mutually beneficial groups, none of which are willing ...
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Urban development projects as a powerful and innovative political process is a result of the global neoliberalism project, which matures under unequal geographical development by covering up real social relations. This project infiltrates opposing but mutually beneficial groups, none of which are willing to withdraw from their interests. The purpose of this article is to make clear how rent appropriation continues through changes in urban development policies and projects in the last three decades in Tehran metropolis. The methodology of this article is based on the philosophy of critical realism and with a rethinking approach, it pays attention to the power and its consequences in urban planning and the class nature of urban development projects. The findings showed that there is a structural relationship between "urban development projects" and polarization in Tehran metropolis. Urban development projects, as a new way of producing the artificial environment, give priority to special economic interests compatible with the rent accumulation strategy and to a large extent ignore the interests and priorities of powerless social groups, including the urban poor and low-income classes. In addition, the urban development projects implemented in Tehran metropolis create a high level of rent gap, rent and land price increase, which lead to gentrification with a speculative and rent-seeking character.
