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After the German reunification, the situation of Berlin has been rapidly and radically changed. As it is the only place where East and West Germany are spatially organizing an urban society, it seems to be obvious that the city has been shaped by processes of national scope. The replacement of the German government from Bonn to Berlin has been a mayor step in the way of reorganizing the total German urban network. Many infrastructural projects are enlisted to be following this trend. At the same time, the city claims to become a “Global City” with an interconnecting position between the west and east of Europe. It is beyond political rhetoric that Berlin has integrated into the world economy and has found some gateway function in the European networks. The paper outlines some major developments of Berlin and debates in how far certain areas of the urban development are more linked to national or global influences. It argues that globalization has a limited effect on urban development in the case of Berlin. It is insufficient to identify Berlin as the “German Global City” as the city is only in some areas and clusters playing a predominate role in comparison to Frankfurt, Munich, and Hamburg. As globalization is assumed also to change the cultural and social architecture of cities, particular attention will be paid on the development of the social and ethnic composition of Berlin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]