This chapter begins with a key premise: most contemporary cities are “microcosms” with unique characteristics, yet they exist within a larger context—the capitalist-neoliberal system. Consequently, these cities grapple with shared challenges produced or consolidated by this overarching system. To tackle these issues, it is pertinent to understand how neoliberal hegemony influences societies and their daily spaces. Using the epistemological and axiological perspectives outlined in Chap.  2 , Sects. 4.3 and 4.4 will explore the effects of current misrecognitive neoliberal social imaginaries and systems on individuals, communities, and the environment. Section 4.4 will further investigate their repercussions on socio-spatial well-being and briefly highlight contemporary urban problems produced and/or consolidated by globalized neoliberalisms. These issues include environmental degradation, climate crises, socio-spatial segregation, self-segregation, gentrification, and the “touristification” and “spectacularization” of some “strategic neighborhoods.” Additionally, it will discuss how such phenomena hinder progress in creating “genuinely public spaces” and more just societies and cities. Overall, this chapter will demonstrate the unsustainability of today’s “global cities” from psychological, social, political, and environmental perspectives and the urgency for different theoretical and methodological frameworks for public policies and interventions.