Iranian Contemporary City: The Morphology Bases of Rentier Pattern of the Iranian City (Case Study: Shahr e Kurd)

In the modern era with the arrival of a rentier economy and the flow of rents in the social and economic structure, a new model of urban growth has emerged in Iran. This article tries based on the case study of Shahr e Kurd introduces morphology bases of rentier pattern of contemporary cities with explanatory and normative approach. Data related to economic, social, spatial and rent resource variables that have been prepared based on the documentary method for 1956 to 2014 and processed by causal-adaptive method. Findings show that the dominance of servicing urban resulting from reintier economic and distribution and dedication of inclusive and exclusive rent between different social groups and have changed Social and economic nature and structure of the development and evolution of the contemporary city mainly through a bureaucratic cycle of rent distribution, spatial production and employment opportunities and the development of one-dimensional society. Close and comprehensive dependence of urban pattern to endogenous sources, exhaustible and non-reproductive rentier economy has made the fragile and unsustainable the structural and substantive foundation of contemporary city in Iran.