Global Metropolises: Places, Where the Process of Modernity is Most Visibly Materialized

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angličtina
Original language name
Global Metropolises: Places, Where the Process of Modernity is Most Visibly Materialized
Original language description
Paper is concerned with concepts that strives to grasp several notable features of a modern globally interconnected and urbanized world. It starts with a fictional image and advances the concepts of the process of modernity, consisting of urbanization, modernization and capitalism, and a concept of global metropolis. It proposes to treat the network of global metropolises, and especially their core areas, as spatially discontinuous but nevertheless socially closely interconnected 'one-world' city. These core areas are surrounded by ancillary metropolitan regions, while the 'rest of the worlds', the peripheries, are taken as reservoirs of resources. The one-world is then taken as the ultimate infrastructure, as the world that connects all the rest of the diverse social worlds, it is the crossroads of the worlds and a background or context that needs to be taken into consideration in whatever talk about modernity. The concept of infrastructure is also developed to distinguish the 'd
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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