Land Use Change and Political Economy of Space: Developing a Theoretical- Integrated Model

With the generalization of neoliberalization in recent decades, some changes have been made in the Third World’s cities to remove barriers to capital accumulation and capital flows. An obvious example is a change in the use of urban space. In this research, we try to present a theoretical model explaining the influential factors of the change of urban land use using the approach of the political economy of space. For this purpose, with regard to urban and global factors affecting the land use change, we presented a theoretical model of the political economy. Then, in order to design a theoretical model about influential factors on urban land use change, we combined the urban and global factors. The findings demonstrated that to propose a comprehensive explanatory model, we need to consider the internal factors for the Third World countries.