Technological metropolises and their Inhabitants

Abstract

Due to the increasing intensity of globalization, cities that are driven by technological industries are emerging all over the world. It is in these cities, which I have dubbed technological metropolises, that both the native inhabitants and knowledge migrants try to find their place. In this paper, I will describe how the respective identities of these people are affected by the interaction of their views regarding the world they live in, on the one hand, and by the transformation these technological metropolises go through, on the other. While theseinteractions tend to undermine the identity formation of natives, they reaffirm those of the knowledge migrants who have a more cosmopolitan world view.