Sentences with phrase «shaping urban society»

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This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

The modern urban landscape has, since the the birth of the industrialised society, been shaped through the use of mechanised systems of communication and mass production.