The network society is a global society because networks have no boundaries. Spatial
transformation is a fundamental dimension of this new social structure. The global
process of urbanisation that we are experiencing in the early 21st century is
characterised by the formation of a new spatial architecture in our planet, made up
of global networks connecting major metropolitan regions and their areas of
influence. Since the networking form of territorial arrangements also extends to the
intrametropolitan structure, our understanding of contemporary urbanisation should
start with the study of these networking dynamics in both the territories that are
included in the networks and in the localities excluded from the dominant logic of
global spatial integration.
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