It appears that the postmodern city is a city of opposites: luxury areas juxtaposed against poverty areas, the homeless and the yuppies, white collar employment and industrial unemployment, the city of fear and the city of entertainment....

Does it make any sense to think in terms of modernist categories of center/periphery when we are trying to suburbanize the center of cities and urbanize the periphery; when there are developed spots and underdeveloped places within each city whether that city is in the north or the south?

Of course this new pattern of spatial formation is part of the transformation effected by globalization and information technologies that potentially enables every place to be an equivalent locational spot on the global map

So while we have argued traditionally that third world cities have overpopulated centers and first world American cities have evacuated their centers for the suburbs this dichotomy many no longer be the way we should analyse the space of contemporary cities under condition of globalization and information technologies.