Impact of globalization on urban governance

Twenty first century has beheld an optimum effort towards creation of an anti-rural society. Globalization is the continuous process that is linking people, neighbourhoods, cities, regions and countries closer. This has resulted in various aspects of our lives like, the food we eat, the clothing we wear and even the ideas we embrace, being integrated with different cultures of the world. Cities of the world are critical to sustainability concerns – globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation. Today, both citizens and their leaders heading the urban scenario, have a major responsibility as the guardians of the future: their present actions will be a stimulus to the shape and structure of cities, so they need to ensure that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives. The Paper explores the influence of worldwide policies of Globalization on the urban front of the world. As the globalization has never been a problem essentially for sustainable development, but cities, in all their diversity and complexity, offer solutions as well as challenges; we will also discuss about an Indian city that globalization built- Bangalore.