Taking globalization as its starting point, the present article aims to show that the changes related to this phenomenon are not restricted to the economic world, but affect the production of urban space in a direct way, as well as the formulation and legitimacy of urbanism's paradigms. Considering this fact, the article emphasizes the reciprocal dependency between material and symbolic procedures, taken here as strategies of actors in the urban restructuring processes. The proposed approach emphasizes the articulation between global interests and the formation of a cities' world market.
urban restructuring; commodity-city; city patriotism; symbolic strife