Despite an ever-larger number of theories trying to convince us of the contrary, the world's move towards the urban does not spell a win-win situation. As much as globalisation has exported metropolitan conditions into the third world, it has also imported third-world conditions into the metropolis. In becoming urban we have not overcome the fundamental inequalities of our economic system. All we have done is to give old struggles a new arena.
Despite an ever-larger number of theories trying to convince us of the contrary, the world's move towards the urban does not spell a win-win situation. As much as globalisation has exported metropolitan conditions into the third world, it has also imported third-world conditions into the metropolis. In becoming urban we have not overcome the fundamental inequalities of our economic system. All we have done is to give old struggles a new arena.