the analysis and explanation of regional-urban development of chabahar city emphasizing on globalization approach

the globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. however, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. the international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. the present study as a descriptive-analytical study aimed at investigating the regional-urban development indexes of chabahar port as well as analyzing the improvement conditions of commercial activities resulting from globalization process. to collect the data required in the study, precise library and field studies were done. the population of the study includes the inhabitants of chabahar, 85633 people according to nation-wide census of 1390. by applying the cochran sampling method, 380 persons were selected as participants to fill the questionnaires. in order to analyze the data, the one-sample t test and spss software were used. based on the findings of the study, the mean of regional-urban development indexes of chabahar port is 3.17 and the t statistic is 4.955. hence, the influence of globalization process on the regional-urban development process is nearly average, as a result the regional-urban development indexes of chabahar port are in a good condition. among the regional-urban development indexes, the &ldquocommunication;” index statistic with 10.818 and the &ldquohousing;” index statistic with 5.538 more than other indexes affected by the globalization process and trade development.