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The increasing complexity of societies and cities involves increasing interdependences between networks and between territories that reinforce their vulnerability. Based on a conception of risk based on the territorial strategic elements and their vulnerability, we explore the hypothesis that these effects of risk propagation can be construed as the concept of vulnerability transmission. Indeed, vulnerability is transmitted through an increasing number of relations of increasing complexity that links the strategic elements between them and with the territory. This text is a first attempt, based on examples, to formalize the concept of vulnerability transmission.