History has shown that cities have always been the best representatives of a particular society, civilization, or epoch as a whole. In this way, the key problems of modern society are most clearly manifested at the intersection of two macro processes: globalization and urbanization. The concept of the global city dominates this area in an effort to impose itself as a leading idea in understanding the relationship between globalization and urbanization. Within it, cities are viewed as strategic places of localization, articulation and realization (or even production) of globalization, that is, places where dialectical relations between local and global phenomena and processes crystallize. This paper explains and presents the city as a whole that can be interpreted as a symbol of society, relationships between people, and various sciences, arts, cultures, and religions. The city is a phenomenon of the urban economy due to the advantages of accommodation, urban space, economies of scale and external economies. Also the basic features of the city over time is the transition from production of product goods (output) to service delivery through the development of technology, advances in marketing, labor in general and the population as a whole. The aim of the paper is to present the real state of the city through analysis and research, to show and explain the impacts of the process on the city such as urbanization, deruralization and others. The development of the city as an important component and backbone in the development of the social and cultural center will also be discussed. The question of the urban economy will answer how cities develop as they grow and how they change despite their general appearance. The internal organization of the city and the purpose of the city center through history and the development of cities through history will be explained. The external influence on the development of cities and city centers will be analyzed and the influence of individual factors will be presented.