TITLE

Globalisation and regional integration: the case on the Italian urban system

AUTHOR(S)

Dematteis, G.

PUB. DATE

December 1997

SOURCE

GeoJournal;Dec1997, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p331

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

A recent study on the European integration of the Italian urban system shows that globalisation processes do not necessarily separate cities from their regional networks. The most successful cases of recenturban development in Italy are associated with the formatiou of metropolitan networked regions in which a major metropolitan centre is linked with cities of a lower level by hierarchical, complementary and synergetic relations. The paper examines the result of an analysis carried out on 148 major Italian daily urban systems. It takes into account two sets of indicators: one referring to the supraregional network interactions, measuring the degree of globalisation, and one referring to the proximity interactions inside the regional networks, measuring the degree of regional cohesion. They allow the definition of typologies of urban systems founded on a (normally positive) correlation between supraregional functional openness and regional integration.

ACCESSION #

8468014

Tags: URBANIZATION;  GLOBALIZATION

 

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