Departing from a reflection about the production of the city and its relation to the modern International, the present research aims to offer a discussion about the city as another type of global assemblage, which becomes evident in the context of hosting international megaevents – such as the Olympics and the World Cup – that intensify the flows, influence the architecture and end up by producing the urban space of the desired global city through practices and strategies that are centered on the valorization of the capital. The research begins with the investigation of the reinvention of the political space in the context of neoliberalism, understanding the megaevents as a strategy of the production of the global city, in order to think how this is materialized on local struggles and the entanglements of this relations both in people s bodies and in the material space of the city. In this sense, this research will think the urban regeneration process in Rio de Janeiro, through a transversal approach, in the period that the city hosted many megaevents as the Pan American Games, the World Cup and the Olympics, which comprehend the period from 2007 to 2016.