Research has emphasized a wide range of issues to do with globalization and paid less attention to the space of cities themselves. Although several cities in the Global South have started to emerge as global cities, this is not where most urban people live, and African cities are generally underrepresented. The work primarily emphasized urban hierarchies ( Robinson, 2002). This helped diversify urban studies but over-emphasized economic flows and global networks.
In the 1990s a focus on large or global cities dominated urban research. Ordinary Cities: Diversity, Contestation, and Distinctiveness
The themes are not exhaustive or exclusive, but are intended rather to invite and challenge the global community of urban researchers and practitioners to respond and to expand the research agenda on Global South cities and urban sustainability. These themes highlight current trends in the urbanization of the Global South that have emerged as being of particular importance to urban sustainability, and are broad enough to engage a wide range of approaches and disciplines. In this inaugural editorial, we pick out three themes that distinguish this research agenda today: ordinary cities, managing urban areas, and urban sustainability. The section's goal is to advance cutting-edge research in the field of Global South urbanization, urbanisms, and urban sustainability. The “Cities of the Global South” section of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities is the first journal section to focus explicitly on urban issues in the Global South.
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