![]() I argue that the long–standing categories of western/third–world cities have been translated into the apparently transnational accounts of global and world cities. By contrast, mega–cities function as the dramatic ‘other’ of world and global cities, and highlight the developmentalist discourse through which most cities in poor countries are assessed as fundamentally lacking in qualities of city–ness. It establishes a small sector of the global economy as most desirable in planning the future of cities. ![]() I argue that the circulation of these approaches in academic and policy realms adversely impacts on cities which do not fall into these categories by setting up the idea of the global city as a ‘regulating fiction’, a standard towards which they aspire. This article evaluates these approaches, from a position off their maps. Abstract: Attention to global and world cities has directed the field of urban studies to the significance of international and transnational processes in shaping city economies.
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