Management and Spatial Planning of Metropolitan Areas in the Era of Economic Globalization: focusing on the metropolitan area of Tehran

In recent decades, economy globalization process has affected the structure and socioeconomic and space organization of countries, tangibly. This process with integration of countries economies, has led to a new organization of urban areas, particularly metropolitans in global scale,which has close economic and social relations. In this article the relationships of globalization process with development of metropolitan areas,particularly its reflections in spatial-space planning and management of metropolitan areas, have been examined. The analytical – descriptive method relying on document study has been used. Results of theoretic and case studies of metropolitan areas show that, the recent structural changes in the global economy had *extensive reflects in the balance of structures and approaches of spatialspace management and planning in these areas, especially in some developing countries for organization of geographical space for playing the desired in the national and global scale. The results of examining spatial policies and programs of Tehran metropolitan area already show at least in the past two decades’ spatial policies and programs, the changes of globalization of economy in metropolitan areas and the use of potential capabilities of these areas have been noted. However, because of the governing of traditional structures of state management and planning, particularly this region has not had suitable reactions to requirements of economy globalization process and no ability to regional, national and promotion of national position.