Hyperurbanism?

When urbocentrism is combined with technological and economic power, it takes on the character of an unstoppable force.

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December 17, 2004, 11:00 AM PST

"[R]ealise that urbocentrism (the late modern concentration of power, resources, capital and culture in the city) is being displaced by the emergent, even more aggressive condition of hyperurbanism (existing concentrations combined with a newly invigorated and massively increased proliferation of the power of the urban beyond the space of the city).

...Hyperurbanism recognises that the urban has become an extremely powerful designing idea, not just of the forms and spaces of built fabric everywhere, but equally of psychologies, cultural dispositions and life-worlds that are beyond its visible boundaries. This means that the environmental impacts of the city can no longer be determined via the idea of it having a footprint."

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