ABSTRACT
Cities are central to neoliberal globalisation. The increasing concentration of humanity within them is in part a product of it. Their internal forms reflect its market dynamics. The competition between them is both product and support of the neoliberal agenda. Cities are crucial to neoliberal globalization but they figure in very diverse ways within it. The account presented in World City attempts to weave a course between on the one hand the dystopian visions and apocalyptic urban accounts, generalized perhaps from experience in the USA. Global cities have become crucial bargaining chips, vital components in the struggle to assert neoliberalism politically. Within urban policy discourse around the world a global-city rhetoric has emerged.
