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The article presents information on the role of globalization in the development of cities based on debates and conferences. Long before the 1990's tidal wave of studies on global cities and global city functions, a considerable number of urbanists studying the so-called 'third world' made considerable progress in examining the ways that global political and economic dynamics associated with empire and mercantilism imposed themselves, a phenomenon that used to be theorized as dependent urbanization. It is hard to miss the explosion of writings on cities and globalization. Almost every city function or metropolitan agglomeration and its fragments is now being conceptualized as global in some way. Globalization has even begun to dominate the vocabulary of urban policy-making and politics, with scholarly articles devoted to the study of how cities market themselves in global terms or how politicians symbolically use globalization in city electoral campaigns.
