World archipelago mégalopolitain

The world archipelago mégalopolitain (BITTER) is a term introduced by the geographer Olivier Dollfus. It describes a world urban system of cities world which it names firstly the world metropolitan archipelago.

A complex network

The LAND-MARK is a complex network binding various urban fabrics of planet. There is no strict definition of the LAND-MARK, one can consider that it gathers:
  • all the Metropolis S of more than one certain number of inhabitants
  • all the cities world
  • all the Megalopolis S
According to Olivier Dollfus it is this “town suit which contributes to the direction of the world, a symbol of the globalisation related to the concentration of the activities of innovation and command”. Indeed the most rigorous definition wants that the world archipelago mégalopolitain is composed of centers of political impetus, economic, cultural of world scale. The world centers of impulse result from the process of Mondialisation and by feedback reinforce this one by consolidating the position of these small islands of command.

A not-homogeneous unit

If there does not exist clean hierarchisation within the world archipelago mégalopolitain, one can say that it does not constitute a homogeneous unit. It is very uneven in the city it even (differences enter districts of business, ghetto, indistrielles zones…) giving rise to phenomena of clusterisation.

Territorial inequalities

The existence of this LAND-MARK creates deep inequalities between the cities open on the contained world and their territories. The emergence of major urban centres causes in a certain manner the immersion of the neighbouring territories.

Internal bonds

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