1. Paolo Perulli University of Piemonte Orientale and Fondazione Irso Milan, June 8 2012

2. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 LITERATURE ON GLOBAL CITY HAS RECENTLY COINED THE TERM GLOBAL 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 definition 2

3. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 ontology The ontology of the global city-regions includes a different substance and nature than the old centralized metropolis. substanceweb of contracts This substance is a web of contracts much wider and global than in the National epoch. Global city-region: substance - 1 3

4. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 agglomerating substance The agglomerating substance of the global city-region relational contracting is relational contracting among actors which are global in many cases: enterprises, services, global networks. 4 Global city-region: substance - 2

5. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 place variable geometry and geography Such place has a variable geometry and geography, functionally defined and no longer territorially defined in any administrative boundary. Such contracts are interconnected connective networks giving place to connective networks. 5 Global city-region: place

6. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 risk The risk is that new public-private partnerships unable to protect the excluded will be unable to protect the excluded, the marginal, those who remain outside 6 Risks

7. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 The main asimmetry to be tackled with information accesshighly selective is information access, which is highly 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. 7 Asimmetry - 1

8. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 mobility The second asimmetry is about mobility, more selective which is still more selective: those who can move and shift, those who simply cannot. 8 Asimmetry - 2

9. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 GLOBAL 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. 9 Global city-region as a platform

10. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 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. 10 Governance mechanisms

11. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 WORLD CITY NETWORK It is as an interlocking network model 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. 11 World City Network

12. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 12 Major Italian City-Dyads in the World City Network World RankItalian City-DyadsDyad size 19MilanLondon1053 20MilanNew York1042 47MilanParis862 51MilanHong Kong851 73MilanSingapore800 81MilanTokyo775 88New YorkRome758 96LondonRome746 100MilanSydney740 105MilanMadrid724 112MilanShanghai708 122MilanMoscow697 130MilanBeijing687 160MilanBrussels661 186MilanSeoul635 189MilanToronto632 199ParisRome620 210MilanChicago604 212MilanBuenos Aires602 214MilanAmsterdam601 219Hong KongRome597 240MilanSao Paulo583 246=MilanMumbai580 246=MilanZurich580 272MilanFrankfurt565 280MilanKuala Lumpur561 286=MilanDublin559 286=MilanWarsaw559 294MilanTaipei557 319MilanBangkok554 323SingaporeRome542 339MilanMexico City533 356MilanRome523 368=BeijingRome519 368=TokyoRome519 378SydneyRome513 379MilanIstanbul513 399MilanJakarta503 400ShanghaiRome502 403MadridRome501 421MilanPrague494 426MilanStockholm493 428MilanBudapest492 442MoscowRome489 450=MilanLisbon487 450=BrusselsRome487 463MilanVienna482 511MilanAthens467 557MilanLos Angeles454 Source: Taylor P., forthcoming in Perulli P. (ed.), Nord. La città-regione globale, Il Mulino, 2012

13. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 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 a domestic policy and a foreign policy through alliances through alliances. 13 Evidences

14. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 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 would form a new platform structuring the main South European axis and corridor. 14 Alliances and possibilities

15. Paolo Perulli - Milan, June 8 2012 A new economic and political geography of Europe would emerge based on cross-border, trans-national alliances trans-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. 15 A new European geography

16. paoloperulli@libero.it