Each era emphasizes on concepts that attract public attention to. Globalization is an issue discussed in the recent years. Globalization is a phenomenon that is associated with different levels of analysis such as politics, economy, culture and ideology; therefore, there is no comprehensive definition of it, but generally, globalization is a process in which the constraints of geography on political, economic and cultural are lost.

Over several decades, the “death of geography” is expected. The concept of “Alvin Toffler” was led the in “Future Shock” and believes that the recent developments in the field of transport and communications technologies, and the rapid movement of people and information that arise from these developments it revealed that that geographic location is not in dispute and conflict. . The end of geography, the destruction of the place by the passage of time, the unity of time and place (Castells), the compression of time and space (Harvey 1989) are interpretations that have been applied in the context of this field. On the other hand, The Economist in 2003 in an article entitled “The Revenge of Geography” wrote it is naive to think that universal access to the Internet may be meaningless geography; in fact geography is far from death.

Among the different dimensions of globalization, the economy is one of the most important aspects of the process of global transformation. Around 1970s and 1980s, the economy entered a new process of transformation in the national and international arenas. The rapid development of infrastructure, information technologies, and trading and expansion of global activity has led multinational expansion. Economic systems have gone beyond the framework of nation and global cultural movement.  Cosmopolitan are phenomena that production that consumption centers and community services function in a coherent global network built together. These cities control and maintain wealth and power due to the current flows. In other words, urban areas are rich archipelago in the world.

Dominate the stock markets, securities, headquarters, bankers, lawyers and real estate developers in the top three in the global urban network. Dominate the stock markets, securities, headquarters, bankers, lawyers and real estate developers in the top three cities have a global city network. “Peter Hall” noted the seven cities of the world such as London, Paris, the Rhine-Ruhr, Moscow and New York. He referred political power and trade, including transport, banking and finance, as distinct from other centers of population and wealth in the world.

Discussing global cities has been entered into a new arena with classic article “John Friedman"” as a global city hypothesis. He put major cities within the international division of labor and list on the first floor in the world, including London and Paris in Western Europe, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles in North America and Japan in Asia.

The rapid development of infrastructure, information technologies, and trading and expansion of global activity has led multinational expansion. Among the different dimensions of globalization, the economy is one of the most important aspects of the process of global transformation.  Economic systems have gone beyond the framework of nation and global cultural movement.  Cosmopolitan are phenomena that production that consumption centers and community services function in a coherent global network built together. These cities control and maintain wealth and power due to the current flows. In other words, urban areas are rich archipelago in the world. Economic systems have gone beyond the framework of nation and global cultural movement. Cosmopolitan are phenomena that production that consumption centers and community services function in a coherent global network built together. These cities control and maintain wealth and power due to the current flows. In other words, urban areas are rich archipelago in the world.

In this regard, the metropolis of Tehran is trying to develop a coherent and strategic actions and macro programs in global and regional network to achieve the position it deserves. According to 20-year Plan, Tehran will be a cultural, knowledge-based, with Iranian and Islamic identity, a beautiful, prosperous and a benchmark in cosmopolis and have a special position in the world of Islam, regional and trans-regional in 1404. Tehran is one of the world's 25 largest cities of the Islamic Republic of Iran with more than 10% of the population and allocated close to 14 percent of GDP.

Source : ISNA

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