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Enyedi György Nagyvárosi régiók György Enyedi Metropolitan regions There are now more then three hundred city regions around the world with population greater then one million. At least twenty city-regions have population in excess often million. These cities form a new type of regional network, forged by the process of globalization. Despite the fact that information technology made the geographical dispersal of economic activity possible, there is a strong concentration tendency of high level business services and decision making centers into large cities. The paper analyses why large cities have become again the engines of economic growth and prosperity; how and why the growing richess is being unevenly distributed among urban social groups; and what sort of new governance issues are formulated in metropolitan regions. 25