Globalisation and local resistance: Alternative city developmental scenarios on capital's global frontier—the case of Yalova,Turkey

Today, defining objectives and setting priorities at local level becomes more and more difficult as the nature and direction of urbanisation is increasingly influenced by global economic integration and the struggle of countries, and indeed, individual cities, to be competitive in the global marketplace (Cohen, 2004). In general, local strategies have to be formed and reformed, based on the logic of macro-level factors as to what is, or is not, feasible, and actors’ responses and political judgments about which values and interests they most wish to promote.