Evaluate the sociocultural impacts of urbanization practices of a totalitarian regime by a spatio-chronological analysis. Case Study of Damascus.

Evaluate the sociocultural impacts of urbanization practices of a totalitarian regime by a spatio-chronological analysis. 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Case Study of Damascus. Samira Mobaied This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7251421/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 25 Sep, 2025 Read the published version in OALib → Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Thinking about space and its temporal evolution to analyze, understand and manage sociocultural crises in the context of political domination is an approach that helps us understand the roles of different political and economic actors in internal conflicts. This places a premium on establishing methods using geographic technology to develop these approaches. In this context, this paper proposes a method of spatiotemporal analysis of urbanization strategies implemented by different political actors based on a case study of Damascus. Several significant correlations emerged in this study, in particular, the informality of settlements and the segregation of the different sociocultural groups that make up the city, which allowed us to synthesize the ways in which public authorities have acted differently on urban space in Damascus. City Management and Urban Policy GIS Damascus city Conflicts Urbanization Full Text Additional Declarations The authors declare no competing interests. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 25 Sep, 2025 Read the published version in OALib → Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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