The classics of sociology, created their own theory, starting from the study of society and ending with the study of a great city.

The relevance of the research of great cities characteristics and problems is determined, on the one hand, by the increasing role of cities themselves in the world, and, on the other hand, by extreme complexity and poor handling of socio-cultural processes that occur in these systems. These factors have different nature and different causes: historical, geographical, political. The modern stage of society development can rightly be called the time of great cities: agglomeration, megacities, alpha-cities become the main players on the map of big politics, business, culture and science. Keywords: The Global city world cities the social-cultural space urban planning city management Introduction For the world city, as a system that defines and forms these processes, the author introduces the concept of a control point, which is a landmark, setting the direction of development and changing the dynamics of socio-cultural space. The instability, volatility of urban space, the dependence on a huge number of factors and side effects of decisions are the main problems of the modern management of urban space.

This article discusses the methods and mechanisms that contribute to changes in the urban space by different examples.

The modern urban development goal - to become visible on the world map of politics, economy, allowing the city to develop, involving active and creative actors in their own space. The global city is seen as a factor of influence on the socio-economic processes of the modern world, which determines the impact depending not only on the size of the city. We consider the specifics of such concepts as a global city, a world city, town information, a creative city. In this article, we analyze different approaches to the term global city and reveal the process of formation of this phenomenon in social sciences.

Critique of global city concept