Globalisation is basically a geographical event, in other words a historical event concerning space, actually the emergence of a world-scale relevant space. Globalisation is a long-term process, whose beginning can be placed when the humans started to scatter throughout the Earth’s surface, soon after 100,000 BP. What is at stake in the present stage is the construction of a full-fledge society worldwide, including an efficient political function. The present level of globalness can be represented by four models and their interactions : inter-communal remoteness, interstate field of forces, exchange networks and World-society. As a result of globalisation, the balance between these models and the scale at which each one operates are being modified. Moreover, relationships between metrics are changed, too, namely those existing between territories and networks. However, globalisation  can by no means be seen as a place-destroying process. While, on one hand, the “invention of the World” potentially reduces disparities between the various spots of the inhabited space, we can, on the other hand, observe the new, unique significance of singular places within a totally connected environment. The emerging role of places is a major issue of globalisation, whose future remains largely open. As a matter of fact, one peculiarity of globalisation is that it is a simultaneously experienced and reflected event. This is the reason why the concept of actor, and specially of spatial actor, has probably never been as relevant as it is today. Globalisation is basically a geographical event, in other words a historical event concerning space, actually the emergence of a world-scale relevant space. Globalisation is a long-term process, whose beginning can be placed when the humans started to scatter throughout the Earth’s surface, soon after 100,000 BP. What is at stake in the present stage is the construction of a full-fledge society worldwide, including an efficient political function. The present level of globalness can be represented by four models and their interactions : inter-communal remoteness, interstate field of forces, exchange networks and World-society. As a result of globalisation, the balance between these models and the scale at which each one operates are being modified. Moreover, relationships between metrics are changed, too, namely those existing between territories and networks. However, globalisation can by no means be seen as a place-destroying process. While, on one hand, the “invention of the World” potentially reduces disparities between the various spots of the inhabited space, we can, on the other hand, observe the new, unique significance of singular places within a totally connected environment. The emerging role of places is a major issue of globalisation, whose future remains largely open. As a matter of fact, one peculiarity of globalisation is that it is a simultaneously experienced and reflected event. This is the reason why the concept of actor, and specially of spatial actor, has probably never been as relevant as it is today.