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There is now a global articulation of cities or segments of cities in a worldwide network society or agglomeration. This new creation does not refer to any one metropolis or place, but to interactive networks of places and connectivities in communications, transportation, and their relationships. Some have called these transterritorial networks the “global city,” the “world city,” the “New Creation,” or the “urban cosmopolitan civilization.” We will call it the “Charismatic City.” This name is selected to mark a fresh conception of the future city in five distinct, but related, ways.
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Wariboko, N. (2014). The Charismatic City. In: The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion. CHARIS: Christianity and Renewal—Interdisciplinary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463197_2
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