SPACEPOL

Space And Politics in the Capital Cities

Our collective research project has just funded by ANR France for 4 years. The title of the project is "Space And Politics: Capital Cities As Instruments Of Political Struggle And Power. During the time of the project, we would like to have a webpage in order to share informations related to the project especially on deliverables and outcomes like publications, newsletters, announcement of workshops and conference as well as our findings in our different field studies. This research project involves the international comparison of different capital cities 'Ankara, Moscow, Tehran, Abu-Dhabi, Nur-Sultan, Cairo) to study the place and the role of political power and global urban governance in the creation, making and development of capital cities as well as the impacts of grassroots claims and demands about urban and environmental design on these political processes. The following questions will constitute the core of our interrogation: how are the national imaginaries of capital cities forged by the spatial configuration of political symbols? What are the conflictual and/or consensual relationships between different political actors in the conception of capital cities? To what extent could the nature of the political regime have an important impact on this conception with regard to the highly competitive context of planetary urbanization? What are the specific socio-political and economic flows among these countries and how do they in turn influence capital city building? Finally, how is it possible to tackle the interactions between urban design policies and multiple societal and environmental advocacy programs, considering the growing importance of urban democracy in many countries and international agendas

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Rédacteur(s) en chef

Gülçin Erdi

Année de création

2023

Date de mise en ligne

11 janvier 2022

Langue de la publication

English

Coordonnées

Courriel

gulcin.erdi@univ-tours.fr

Adresse postale

SPACEPOL
MSH Val de Loire
UMR CITERES
33 Allée Ferdinand de Lesseps
37200 Tours
France

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