Comparative Analysis of the Geographical Space Mechanism of the World Cities and National Metropolises in The Process of Globalization (Case study: Shanghai World City and Tehran National Metropolis)

Understanding the mechanism of geographical space of cities, in dealing with Hyperglobalization, is one of the most important approaches to analyzing geographical spaces. This research by recognizing this point and considering the importance of Metropolises in the developing countries chose Tehran with Shanghai as the examples of the successful models of globalization, with the aim of finding the geographical space mechanism of these two cities and presenting a model of globalization for Tehran. The research method in this research is descriptive, analytical and inferential. Using theoretical foundations, obtaining the opinions of experts through the Delphi method and inferential measurement of globalization variables, using the man-witny test It has been studied in SPSS software environment. The results are expressed as two equations. Explains the differences between the components of economic integration, communication, information processes and their spatial interconnection in the global system with the non-global system. International trade volume, foreign tourism, Internet penetration rate, number of branches of foreign banks, number of branches of multinational companies and foreign direct investment. Therefore, in terms of descriptive, analytical and statistical inference, the results show the contrasting mechanism of the geographical space of Shanghai and Tehran.