Analysis of the effects of liberal capitalist economy on the decline of Islamic lifestyle in contemporary architecture and urbanism of Iran

One of the most important areas which influences on architecture and urbanization is economy and its various components. During recent decades, due to changes in contemporary economic affairs of Iran, the architecture and urbanization of the country have undergone many changes which a significant part of these changes is rooted in the liberal-capitalist economic system. Accordingly, the problem that has been dealt with in this article is the study of the effects of the liberal-capitalist economic system on architecture and urbanization, and in particular, the contemporary physical spatial transformations of Iran.This article has been used to deepen this problem by a combining method (consisting of documentary method for data collecting and qualitative content analysis method for data analysis). According to the findings of this study, many of the problems of contemporary architecture and urbanization in Iran, such as the emergence of polarization and class differentiation in urban areas, the emergence of row housing phenomenon, the degradation of quality in biosphere spaces and the diminution of these spaces and etc., all are rooted in the effects of the liberal capitalist system which in this paper, the role of this economic system in the process of occurrence of these problems is explained.