Metropolize

Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.

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Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.

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Walpole's efforts to metropolize British politics (focusing his attentions upon the greater business of state) allowed, indeed encouraged, the development of parallel cultures of extra-urban political activity, predicated upon clientage and local connections.

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Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.

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