Minimizing the side effects of the metropolization as a condition for maintenance of transition and resilience in the post-industrial agglomerations

Abstract

"The globalization phenomenon is one of the main social processes that determine our contemporary reality. It may be analysed as a phenomenon by itself but today it is becoming a rather fundamental feature of most social phenomena which, under its influence, have completely changed their character. Globalization is a phenomenon that penetrates reality so deeply that it constitutes a new paradigm that must be used in order to comprehend present reality properly. One phenomenon that cannot be comprehended without taking global processes into consideration is metropolization which is globalization’s elemental consequence in the city space. In this depiction, globalization might be defined as a phenomenon that relies on involution and the intensification of different kinds of flows and crossings of different processes which till now have been independent to a certain degree. Due to time and space compression, as indicated in the literature, a specific virtual global space was created in which interactions take place in unprecedented numbers through the actors that take part in it, and the subjects which are its content." (fragm.)