I am an urban economic geographer. I investigate (structural) drivers of economic urbanization processes and their social ramifications. In my research, I use a classical political economy approach and a macroeconomic interpretation of urban land rent theory to explain long-term (and turbulent) national intersectoral dynamics driving local investment choices in empirical studies on (economic) urbanization processes, spatial inequality, housing, national and municipal land policies, etc.
I teach undergrad and master’s courses in urban social geography, political economy, planning theory, and theory of science:
Current courses: SGEM26; SGEK03:2; SGEA20:4; MIDM19; SGEL36
Previous courses: SGEA23:2; SGEL73
Publications
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Political economy versus political Economy: bringing back classical political economy into geographic research
Ilia Farahani, Mads Barbesgaard, Peter Dau, Jostein Jakobsen
(2024)
Conference paper: abstractMarx and Capital Vol II, Harvey and circuits of capital
Ilia Farahani
(2024)
Conference paper: abstractCapitalist urbanization in the post-neoliberal and de-globalizing world economy: A minor critical engagement with VIP-Urbanism literature
Ilia Farahani
(2024) Human Geography
Journal articleSpatial inequality in Tehran, a structural explanation
Shadi Yousefi, Ilia Farahani
(2022) Urban Research & Practice, 15 p.25-46
Journal articlePublic housing, intersectoral competition, and urban ground rent: Iran’s first public housing program that never was
Ilia Farahani, Shadi Yousefi
(2021) Human Geography, 14 p.45-61
Journal articleLand rent, capital, rate of profit : A critique of Harvey’s model of urban land rent
Ilia Farahani
(2021)
DissertationCorona hotar förvärra svenska bostadskrisen : 108 forskare: Sveriges regering och kommuner måste förhindra en katastrof
Anders Lund Hansen, Eric Clark, Verner Denvall, Ilia Farahani, Lovisa Häckner Posse, et al.
(2020) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleSession M90: Marxism(s) in Geographic and Sustainability Research
Ilia Farahani
(2019)
Conference - otherSocio-spatial inequality in Tehran, a structural explanation
Shadi Yousefi, Ilia Farahani
(2019)
Conference paper: abstractFinancialisation of Built Environments: Urban Governance, Social Geographies, and Sustainability
Ilia Farahani, Eric Clark
(2016) FESSUD Working Paper Series
Working paperThe Swedish Financial System
Alexis Stenfors, Eric Clark, Ilia Farahani, Anders Lund Hansen, Passarella, Marco
(2015) FESSUD Studies in Financial Systems, 13
Working paperIran's First Public Housing Program, What Went Wrong?
Ilia Farahani
(2015)
Conference paper: abstractVanished in gaps, vanquished in rifts : the social ecology of urban spatial change in a working class residential area, Peykan-Shahr, Tehran, Iran
Ilia Farahani
(2013) Journal of Political Ecology, 20 p.395-412
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