Abstract
Abstract This paper sets out to explore how recent re-integration into the global economy has shaped the dynamics of urban development in two quite differently positioned southern African cities: Maputo in Mozambique and Cape Town in South Africa. Separate but similarly structured city profiles of the two cities were provided in an earlier issue of this journal, outlining how their different patterns of historical and recent development have generated specific clusters of social and spatial issues which are reacting differently under the impact of globalisation. This paper draws on these profiles to investigate the question of whether or not the form of local governance adopted in particular contexts really “matters” in assessing the possible outcome of the global reintegration process and, if so, in what way. In this it suggests a re-assessment of the “formal” analysis of urban development under changing global forces and different political prognoses.
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