ABSTRACT
Cities all over the world have been rapidly changing in the last decades. Processes that are connected to Globalisation or Europeanisation, for example increased mobility and increased diversity along various dimensions such as ethnicity, legal status, human capital, have led to rapid urban transformations. According to globalisation scholars studying forces on the macro level and their impact on cities, cities may lose their importance for the structuring of people’s lives. Giddens (1991) was among the first scholars who pointed to the disembeddedness of social systems from time and space. Interactions are less and less focused or dependent on the local context, but thanks to symbolic tokens such as money and expert systems taken out from their immediate relation with time and space.
