metropolize

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

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

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