ABSTRACT
This chapter consider the present conditions by which changes might be induced that the metropolis has come to dominate the city and that the metropolis must deal with the globalization of the economy. The globalization was affecting the thousands of workers on the streets of Seattle during the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO), reflected the basic economic issues that had bedeviled the cities of the United States during the Great Depression. The World Trade Center (WTC) that collapsed in the attack on New York, enjoyed its stature as the epitome of high-density edifice-building, but WTC was also the working home of countless participants in the globalizing economy that affects every aspect of urban America. Most elusive of the conundrums will be discovering whether, as a result of the terrorist attack and subsequent exposure to terrorism, the federal government will become more interested in America's metropolises and in New York City in particular.
