Development Projects as Hegemonic Projects: Analysis of the Functions of Imagineering Policies in Border Areas (Case Study: Saqqez City)

Imagineering includes strategies and practices of urban planners and managers who create living imagination in developing cities through strategies for citizens. Citizens are also unaware of urban deficiencies and shortcomings of Imagineering. The present paper set to study Imagineering and its apparent and hidden functions in forming values and behavioral patterns of Saqqez citizens, Iran. In order to reach this goal, based on critical realism approach, we used the study documents and purposive sampling.  Imagineering has two important functions: covering urban mismanagement and Consumerism. Consumerism leads to mass society, reduction of critical thinking, and reproduction of hegemonic domination. Consumerism creates these phenomena through seduction and the bombardment of a signs. Also, hegemonic domination reproduces ineffective urban administration. Socially, these attempts to cover the city's challenges and disadvantages by relying on the construction of recreational and commercial centers they only have an outer attraction and are inwardly out of place it only raises social distrust, civil indifference and undermines national identity among the border people.