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Paolo Perulli University of Piemonte Orientale and Fondazione Irso

FROM METROPOLIS TO GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS. Paolo Perulli University of Piemonte Orientale and Fondazione Irso. Milan, June 8 2012. Global city-region: a definition. LITERATURE ON GLOBAL CITY HAS RECENTLY COINED THE TERM GLOBAL CITY-REGION It is an assemblage of economy and society

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Paolo Perulli University of Piemonte Orientale and Fondazione Irso

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  1. FROM METROPOLIS TO GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS Paolo Perulli University of Piemonte Orientale and Fondazione Irso Milan, June 8 2012

  2. Global city-region: a definition LITERATURE ON GLOBAL CITY HAS RECENTLY COINED THE TERM GLOBAL CITY-REGION It is anassemblage of economy and society looking for representation. Global city-regions in Europe are constantlyinvolved in European policies.

  3. Global city-region: substance - 1 The ontology of the global city-regions includes a different substance and nature than the oldcentralizedmetropolis. Thissubstance is a web of contracts muchwider and global than in the National epoch.

  4. Global city-region: substance - 2 The agglomerating substance of the global city-region is relationalcontractingamongactors which are global in many cases: enterprises, services, global networks.

  5. Global city-region: place Such place has a variablegeometry and geography, functionallydefined and no longerterritoriallydefined in anyadministrativeboundary. Suchcontracts are interconnected giving place to connective networks.

  6. Risks The risk is that new public-privatepartnerships will be unable to protect the excluded, the marginal, those who remainoutside

  7. Asimmetry - 1 The main asimmetry to be tackledwith is information access, which is highlyselective. It is a matter of digital divide, including training and retraining and the creation of ICT-basedsmart communities notlimited to privilegedeconomicélites.

  8. Asimmetry - 2 The second asimmetry is aboutmobility, which is stillmore selective: those who can move and shift, those who simplycannot.

  9. Global city-region as a platform GLOBAL CITY-REGION It is a platform wherefirms can land and take-off according to theirstrategies. Butit is alsoaninterconnected network of enterprises, institutions and people reciprocallyinterrelated.

  10. Governance mechanisms Governance mechanisms should include new soft agreements and new constitutionalorderings. Soft agreementshave to be managed by territorialgovernments, chambers of commerce and interest associations of firms to create a common understanding and common rules of conduct.

  11. World City Network WORLD CITY NETWORK It is as aninterlocking network model developed by prof. Peter Taylor This is anapproachthathasthreelevels to its network: a net level of interacting cities in the world economy; a nodallevel of cities throughwhich the network is produced; a sub-nodallevel of advancedproducer service firms who are the network-makers.

  12. Major Italian City-Dyads in the World City Network Source: Taylor P. , forthcoming in Perulli P. (ed.), Nord. La città-regione globale, Il Mulino, 2012

  13. Evidences Thismapshowsthat Milan is more interconnected to North America and Asia than to some other European cities. On this base each global city-region shoulddevelop a domestic policy and a foreign policy throughalliances.

  14. Alliances and possibilities Think to the future Milan-Turin global city-region largelyincludingLombardy, Piedmont, LigurianPorts. Or to Barcelona-Valencia-BalearicIslands. Or to Marseille Provence. Linkedtogether, these global city regions would form a new platform structuring the main South European axis and corridor.

  15. A new European geography A new economic and political geography of Europe would emerge based on cross-border, trans-nationalalliances. Whenitcomes to global city regions, it is the field of multilevel governance, from the European to the urbanlevels thathasstill to be fullyunderstood and developed by policy makers.

  16. PAOLO PERULLI paoloperulli@libero.it

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