metropolize

To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.

Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.

To develop into a city or urban area.

Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.

Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.

To visit the city.

Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.

Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”