Explaining Power Mechanism in the Preparation and Implementation of Urban Development Plans; The University of Tehran Development Plan as a Case Study

Today with the spatialization of more and more logic called urbanization,cities are growing and advancing more than ever through a kind of spatial competition. In this sense, today we are witnessing more and more the spatialization of competitive logic and development in the world around us.In other words,it can be said that what we deal with in the form of various plans and programs is considered as a representative of the mentioned logic. As an example of these development plans and programs, this article Uses the qualitative method of grounded theory and describes the space of conflict formed around the development plan of the University of Tehran.The research findings show that in this field, through an intertwining of academic rationality and power networks, the knowledge that is concerned with the public good is produced, and Creates the issue that is necessary here to create a green, entrepreneurial and Entrepreneur university. At the same time, this particular knowledge generated by power relations is legitimized.This is where the logic of development is reproduced in a particular spatial form.One of the commonalities of this spatiality in the general concept of development logic is the types of dispossession.This expropriation, along with all the exercise of power, leads to resistance from the communities and here the residents of Vesal neighborhood.Finally,the set of these multiple forces is drawn around the development plan of the University of Tehran and the relationship between the claims of the said plan and the field of reality is measured using methodology.