ABSTRACT
The interface between globalization and urbanization pervades contemporary urban studies. External factors have long affected cities, yet the geographical scale of causes, processes and outcomes of urban changes has grown increasingly transnational, especially in recent decades. The fact that so many large cities, despite their distinctive histories and socio-political systems, are experiencing similar economic, cultural and spatial changes lies at the heart of so-called “globalization-urbanization nexus” literature. In many of these studies, globalization is interpreted not only as a major source of urban change but as a process that is itself facilitated by these changes.
