The impact of planetary urbanization on the citizen’s everyday life
(2022) SGEM08 20221Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- The Chinese government has been working on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the past 20 years to further its goal of expanding global hegemony. It attempts to increase its economic and political influence in the BRI destinations through several projects and six main corridors. These initiatives, in my opinion, have a significant impact on transforming the urban landscape. Considering that most of the previous studies have dealt with the economic effects of these projects, my goal is to examine their impacts on the daily life of citizens, especially in the housing sector. In my thesis, I attempted to address this gap. The theory of planetary urbanization, which commonly derives from Neil Brenner's beliefs, has received a great deal of... (More)
- The Chinese government has been working on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the past 20 years to further its goal of expanding global hegemony. It attempts to increase its economic and political influence in the BRI destinations through several projects and six main corridors. These initiatives, in my opinion, have a significant impact on transforming the urban landscape. Considering that most of the previous studies have dealt with the economic effects of these projects, my goal is to examine their impacts on the daily life of citizens, especially in the housing sector. In my thesis, I attempted to address this gap. The theory of planetary urbanization, which commonly derives from Neil Brenner's beliefs, has received a great deal of attention. His views are influenced by the opinions of Henri Lefebvre, which highlights the 'implosion-explosion' and the links between capitalist forms of agglomeration and extensive transformations of territory, landscape, and environment. This theory asserts that cities are not limited by their physical borders and are impacted by external variables. It also offers differing views on the scales of the city. According to this theory, I intend to investigate how the construction of these projects causes transformations in the urbanization process and city landscapes. Based on the first research question, I analyzed how the development of BRI projects is related to the theory of planetary urbanization. To examine how these transformations brought about by the construction of the BRI projects have affected the residents' everyday lives, I formulated the second research question in continuation of the first. I considered access to public services as one of the components influencing the satisfaction level of citizens. To answer the research questions, I used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. I did six semi-structured interviews to analyze various viewpoints on how the Amirabad port's expansion in Iran, one of the BRI's destinations, affected residents' everyday lives. Also, I made an effort to do a more thorough examination of urban transition and evaluate the accessibility of residents to public services utilizing GIS analysis. I concluded that the planetary urbanization theory's guiding principles are consistent with how BRI projects affect urban transformation. And these initiatives have directly impacted people's everyday lives, particularly the housing section. I concluded by offering recommendations on how to lessen the adverse consequences of this initiative on residents' daily lives. (Less)
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- Pira, Saeid LU
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- organization
- course
- SGEM08 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Planetary urbanization theory, Chinese Belt and Road Initiative(BRI), Amirabad port, Housing.
- language
- English
- id
- 9098911
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abstract = {{The Chinese government has been working on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the past 20 years to further its goal of expanding global hegemony. It attempts to increase its economic and political influence in the BRI destinations through several projects and six main corridors. These initiatives, in my opinion, have a significant impact on transforming the urban landscape. Considering that most of the previous studies have dealt with the economic effects of these projects, my goal is to examine their impacts on the daily life of citizens, especially in the housing sector. In my thesis, I attempted to address this gap. The theory of planetary urbanization, which commonly derives from Neil Brenner's beliefs, has received a great deal of attention. His views are influenced by the opinions of Henri Lefebvre, which highlights the 'implosion-explosion' and the links between capitalist forms of agglomeration and extensive transformations of territory, landscape, and environment. This theory asserts that cities are not limited by their physical borders and are impacted by external variables. It also offers differing views on the scales of the city. According to this theory, I intend to investigate how the construction of these projects causes transformations in the urbanization process and city landscapes. Based on the first research question, I analyzed how the development of BRI projects is related to the theory of planetary urbanization. To examine how these transformations brought about by the construction of the BRI projects have affected the residents' everyday lives, I formulated the second research question in continuation of the first. I considered access to public services as one of the components influencing the satisfaction level of citizens. To answer the research questions, I used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. I did six semi-structured interviews to analyze various viewpoints on how the Amirabad port's expansion in Iran, one of the BRI's destinations, affected residents' everyday lives. Also, I made an effort to do a more thorough examination of urban transition and evaluate the accessibility of residents to public services utilizing GIS analysis. I concluded that the planetary urbanization theory's guiding principles are consistent with how BRI projects affect urban transformation. And these initiatives have directly impacted people's everyday lives, particularly the housing section. I concluded by offering recommendations on how to lessen the adverse consequences of this initiative on residents' daily lives.}},
author = {{Pira, Saeid}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The impact of planetary urbanization on the citizen’s everyday life}},
year = {{2022}},
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