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- Title
Globalisation and regional integration: the case of the Italian urban system
- Authors
Dematteis, Guiseppe
- Abstract
A recent study on the European integration of the Italian urban system shows that globalization processes do not necessarily separate cities from their regional networks. The most successful cases of recenturban development in Italy are associated with the formation of metropolitan networked regions in which a major metropolitan center 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 globalization, 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.
- Subjects
CITIES &; towns; DEMOGRAPHY
- Publication
GeoJournal, 1997, Vol 43, Issue 4, p331
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1006833200307