"zones into" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone becoming intensely focused on something. Example: As the music started playing, the dancer zoned into her performance, completely immersing herself in the movements and emotions.
Outside the historic center, young creative talent is attempting a similar feat, transforming the city's semi-derelict industrial zones into hives of artistic enterprise.
The DH Lawrence-loving intellectual was trying to mix high culture with peasant culture and also took his dancers completely out of their normal comfort zones into English mining communities.
The couple have ploughed millions of their own money – made through providing insurance in conflict zones – into the charity, which has in its first two years rescued nearly 12,000 people at sea.
"A first step in returning the land to Cuba, the Guantánamo peace park and research center would encourage nations to convert military bases and conflict zones into areas of creativity, cooperation, and biodiversity conservation," the proposal said.
They are also talking to the drone industry about the potential to programme the GPS coordinates of prison no-fly zones into the majority of drones on the market so they are blocked from overflying jails.
Sensing opportunity, smugglers from Turkey began transporting refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine and other conflict-ridden zones into the unrecognized, Turkish-occupied northern region of the island.
Finally, the Spanish divided the rural agricultural zones into encomiendas, which later formed the basis for haciendas and kept the best farmland in the hands of a few wealthy owners.
In the main story Quincy Sharp, the former head man at Arkham Asylum, has become mayor of Gotham and has turned a swath of the city's slum and industrial zones into a walled superprison where the inmates hold sway.
I soon understood why one man had warned me, "Watch out for iftar traffic!" At 4 p.m., the empty streets abruptly turned from quiet pedestrian zones into rumbling racetracks.
His ideas about artists turning "fleetingly occupied, briefly deterritorialized affective zones" into power lend themselves well to thinking about the current era of sonic pastiche, when sampling and superimposition create hybrid places and so deftly mimic the processes of association and memory.
With its obsessive psychiatrist, its symbols cut into empty swimming-pool floors, its derelict weapons ranges and scenes of grotesque biological entropy, The Voices of Time surveys the zones into which Ballard's fictions would move later in the decade, and the dense network of leitmotifs with which he would populate them.
