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English term or phrase:
Confusing sentence structure
English answer:
Not really
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Türkiye
Confusing sentence structure
Hi everyone
As far as I am concerned "media-driven urbanization necessitating countless individual units splits network at the same time" but I could not get which one of them operates? in "wherever it operates". I guess as in as it installs equals to because
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B D Finch
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| 4 +1 | break it up into sections |
JaneD
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| 3 +1 | The explanation follows... |
Henk Sanderson
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| 4 | Clarified ... ? |
Jennifer Levey
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| 3 | Rearrange it |
Yorkshireman
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Not really
Thus, media-driven urbanization breaks up networks at the same time as it installs a more over-arching form of assimilation around a ‘few production centres’ of culture.
The two things that occur "at the same time" are the breaking up of networks and the installing of "a more over-arching form of assimilation".
Once that is clarified, you can add back in the extra bit of information about "media-driven urbanization", which is that it "requires the duplication of innumerable, individual units wherever it operates".
break it up into sections
"Media-driven urbanization breaks up networks while putting in place a more general form of assimilation..."
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"Media-driven urbanization requires the duplication of many separate units wherever it takes place"
Although quite what it actually means I don't know!
Netherlands
47 years of Engineering Experience
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Netherlands)
Works in: German to Dutch, English to Dutch
The explanation follows...
requires duplication of units;
breaks up networks; and
installs assimilation (whatever that may mean)
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Jennifer Levey
: OK. Basically, the third thing it does is provoke cultural centralization (not necessarily something desirable in the modern world).
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Thanks, Robin
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Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
Clarified ... ?
The original text is clear enough - at least, to those who understand it!
Thus, media-driven urbanization, which requires the duplication of innumerable, individual units wherever it operates, breaks up networks at the same time as it installs a more over-arching form of assimilation around a ‘few production centres’ of culture.
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1. Thus:
2. wherever it operates, media-driven urbanization requires the duplication of innumerable, individual units,
3. (while*) at the same time it installs (creates) a more over-arching form of assimilation around a ‘few production centres’ of culture
* 'as' in the original, where it has has 'temporal' significance, not 'cause and effect'
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