Abstract
Rio de Janeiro and the dream of the global city: mega events and urban politics. This article intends to analyse the Rio de Janeiro’s strategy of globalization based on the politics of mega sporting events. The adoption of a relational and territorial perspective permits to unveil the peculiar relations between urban politics, global flows and local agency, highlighting the contradictions and the tensions accompanying the production of urban space.
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