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It seems that an international consensus has been reached on the identifica¬ tion and the analysis of these processes, though with some variations in vocabulary (Lacour and Puissant, 1999). Combined and analyzed through the pattern of their spatial dynamics at all scales, they are revisited through the lens of metropolization and global-city theories. Several of these processes emerged after WW2, but others appeared with the diffusion of ICT (Castells, 1996 Sassen, 1991). The city-regions that make up the system represent important economic motors and political actors on the world stage, but each of them is also riven by social. Transport/Iand-use interactions through the lens of metropolization: from theory to the specific case of London global city-regionĬurrent global socio-economic dynamics, the opening of national markets (Benko, 1990 Dollfus, 1994), increasing competition and correlated technological innovations have resulted in the formation of what Pierre Veltz called “the archipelago economy” (l’économie d’archipel) (1997), where a few interconnected global cities are described as «islands» which lead the world economy (Taylor, 2004). Networks and Communication Studies NETCOM, vol.
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