metropolize

verb3

1. •
   To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

   • Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information. — 1987
2. •
   To develop into a city or urban area.

   • Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town. — 1959
3. •
   (no longer used) To visit the city.

   • Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither. — 1866