Abstrakt: | "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.) |