By unhooking the term "transnational" from the realm of deterritorialization, globalized corporate power in which it, like "multi-national," is sometimes poistioned, Smith’s transnational urbanism and Hall’s transnational Britishenss combine with Massey’s theory of relational places and with diaspora theory to provide a valuable framework for interpreting postcolonial narratives of London.

By unhooking the term of postmodernism from the activities of crossing and in-betweenness, in which identity and subject can hardly be defined even temporally, in everyday life we discern a strong conventionality of our working and leisure dichotomy as well as thirty years ago.