A critical approach to the impact of urbanization of capital on public spaces in the city

Since the 1980s, urban spaces have become a place for the role of capital and capitalist systems, and it has somehow affected various aspects of human life. This influence, influenced by the power of capital and its fluid nature, has caused the geographical spaces of the city to be increasingly affected by the functioning of the capitalist system, in the last few decades, it has attracted the attention of a diverse range of researchers active in the field of urban studies. One of the areas of the city that has been particularly affected by the capitalist system is the public spaces of the city. Until the 1980s, a major part of the function and costs of the city's public spaces depended on the governments, which considered themselves obliged to provide free urban services, but with the spread of the conservative approach to political economy, which made the governments seek to reduce their public costs. be, the opportunity arose for capital and capital owners to control and manage the public spaces of the city. This research, with a critical attitude and using the library-document method, aims to examine the effect of capital on the public spaces of the city. The findings of this research show that the public spaces of the city, which used to be a place for social and civic actions, are transforming their identity under the influence of the spatial function of capital in controlling public spaces, and this has made these public spaces more than public functions. They are taken out and become places that provide profit for capital owners.