Westlund, HansBorseková, Kamila2025-06-112025-06-1120252071-789X2306-3459https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gcrs.2025.100005https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/573In: Global Challenges & Regional Science. Amsterdam : Elsevier B.V., 2025. ISSN 3050-502X. Vol. 1, no. 1 (2025), pp. 1-9.There is a growing awareness that the current, almost total domination of cities in the world is an expression of a new stage of human civilization. “Complete urbanization”, “planetary urbanization”, “post-rurality”, “post-metropolitan” and “post-urban world” are some concepts being used to describe this emerging era. This paper aims at 1) form a synthesis of this broad literature, which in each area mark major changes but taken together form component parts of a fundamental transformation; and 2) based on an interaction-cost perspective, analyze the driving forces of the post-urban development. Based on this analysis, an agenda for further research is formulated.enCC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessmesto a vidiekdigitalizáciadigitizationdigitalizationnové technológienew technologiesArticle