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Funkcja metropolitalna a proces globalizacji
Metropolitan Function versus Globalization Process

Author(s): Marika Pirveli
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: EUROREG - Uniwersytet Warszawski, Regional Studies Association - Sekcja Polska

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes metropolitan function as an only determinant, which marks out metropolitan area. There are introduced traditional barriers and access (distance, time and price) to the metropolis from the perspective of postindustrial and knowledge-based society. After the debate surrounding the globalization with the standpoint to the Society of the Late Modern Age, there is applied new kind of barrier⁄access to the metropolitan function, named in the paper as intellectual.

  • Issue Year: 4/2003
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 65-75
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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