Paolo Perulli University of Piemonte Orientale
and Fondazione Irso
Milan, June 8 2012
Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012
LITERATURE ON GLOBAL CITY HAS RECENTLY COINED THE TERM GLOBAL CITY-REGIONGLOBAL CITY-REGION
It is an assemblage of economy and society looking for representation.
Global city-regions in Europe are constantly involved in European policies.
Global city-region: a definitionGlobal city-region: a definition
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The ontologyontology of the global city-regions
includes a different substance and nature
than the old centralized metropolis.
This substancesubstance is a web of contractsweb of contracts
much wider and global than in the National epoch.
Global city-region: substance - 1Global city-region: substance - 1
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The agglomerating substance agglomerating substance of the global city-region
is relational contractingrelational contracting among actors
which are global in many cases:
enterprises, services, global networks.
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Global city-region: substance - 2Global city-region: substance - 2
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Such place place has a variable geometry and geographyvariable geometry and geography,
functionally defined and no longer territorially defined
in any administrative boundary.
Such contracts are interconnected
giving place to connective networksconnective networks.
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Global city-region: placeGlobal city-region: place
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The riskrisk is that new public-private partnerships
will be unable to protect the excludedunable to protect the excluded, the marginal,
those who remain outside
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RisksRisks
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The main asimmetry to be tackled with
is information accessinformation access, which is highly selectivehighly selective.
It is a matter of digital divide,
including training and retraining
and the creation of ICT-based smart communities
not limited to privileged economic élites.
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Asimmetry - 1Asimmetry - 1
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The second asimmetry is about mobilitymobility,
which is still more selectivemore selective:
those who can move and shift,
those who simply cannot.
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Asimmetry - 2Asimmetry - 2
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GLOBAL CITY-REGIONGLOBAL CITY-REGION
It is a platform where firms can land and take-off
according to their strategies.
But it is also an interconnected network of enterprises, institutions and people
reciprocally interrelated.
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Global city-region as a platformGlobal city-region as a platform
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Governance mechanisms should include new soft agreements
and new constitutional orderings.
Soft agreements Soft agreements have to be managed
by territorial governments, chambers of commerce
and interest associations of firms
to create a common understanding
and common rules of conduct.
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Governance mechanismsGovernance mechanisms
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WORLD CITY NETWORK WORLD CITY NETWORK
It is as an interlocking network model It is as an interlocking network model developed by prof. Peter Taylor developed by prof. Peter Taylor
This is an approach that has three levels to its network:
1. a net level of interacting cities in the world economy; 2. a nodal level of cities through which the network is produced; 3. a sub-nodal level of advanced producer service firms who are
the network-makers.
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World City NetworkWorld City Network
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Major Italian City-Dyads in the World City Major Italian City-Dyads in the World City NetworkNetworkWorld Rank Italian City-Dyads Dyad size
19 Milan London 1053
20 Milan New York 1042
47 Milan Paris 862
51 Milan Hong Kong 851
73 Milan Singapore 800
81 Milan Tokyo 775
88 New York Rome 758
96 London Rome 746
100 Milan Sydney 740
105 Milan Madrid 724
112 Milan Shanghai 708
122 Milan Moscow 697
130 Milan Beijing 687
160 Milan Brussels 661
186 Milan Seoul 635
189 Milan Toronto 632
199 Paris Rome 620
210 Milan Chicago 604
212 Milan Buenos Aires 602
214 Milan Amsterdam 601
219 Hong Kong Rome 597
240 Milan Sao Paulo 583
246= Milan Mumbai 580
246= Milan Zurich 580
272 Milan Frankfurt 565
280 Milan Kuala Lumpur 561
286= Milan Dublin 559
286= Milan Warsaw 559
294 Milan Taipei 557
319 Milan Bangkok 554
323 Singapore Rome 542
339 Milan Mexico City 533
356 Milan Rome 523
368= Beijing Rome 519
368= Tokyo Rome 519
378 Sydney Rome 513
379 Milan Istanbul 513
399 Milan Jakarta 503
400 Shanghai Rome 502
403 Madrid Rome 501
421 Milan Prague 494
426 Milan Stockholm 493
428 Milan Budapest 492
442 Moscow Rome 489
450= Milan Lisbon 487
450= Brussels Rome 487
463 Milan Vienna 482
511 Milan Athens 467
557 Milan Los Angeles 454
Source: Taylor P. , forthcoming in Perulli P. (ed.), Nord. La città-regione globale, Il Mulino, 2012
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This map shows that Milan is more interconnected to North America
and Asia than to some other European cities.
On this base each global city-region should develop each global city-region should develop a a domestic policydomestic policy and a and a foreign policyforeign policy
through alliancesthrough alliances.
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EvidencesEvidences
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Think to the future Milan-Turin global city-region largely including Lombardy, Piedmont, Ligurian Ports.
Or to Barcelona-Valencia-Balearic Islands.
Or to Marseille Provence.
Linked together, these global city regions Linked together, these global city regions would form a new platform would form a new platform
structuring the main South European axis and corridor.structuring the main South European axis and corridor.
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Alliances and possibilitiesAlliances and possibilities
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A new economic and political geography of Europe A new economic and political geography of Europe would emerge based on cross-border, would emerge based on cross-border,
trans-national alliancestrans-national alliances.
When it comes to global city regions, it is the field of multilevel governance, from the European to the urban levels
that has still to be fully understood and developed by policy makers.
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A new European geographyA new European geography
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