Territorial impacts of globalization on European Regions Van Hamme Gilles IGEAT-ULB Liege meeting November 2010

2/25 The team Lead partner : IGEAT-ULB Partners Pp2 (UK): School of real estate and planning. University of Reading Pp3 (France): CNRS (mainly Université de Normandie) Pp4 (Italy): Dpto Studi Europei e Interculturali, Sapienza Università di Roma Pp5 (Sweden): Internationella Handelshögskolan i Jönköping AB Pp6 (Bulgaria): Institute of Geography BAS

3/25 Major questions and objectives 1.Objective 1: to assess how Europe, its regions and cities participate in the global flows and networks and how the global processes impact on the territorial structures of Europe. How can territorial policies help to improve the position of the different types of regions in the world and ensure the objectives of social and territorial cohesion despite the potentially unequal impacts of globalization on European territories? 2. Objective 2: : to analyse the impacts of territorial structures on European performances How can territorial policy improve European competitiveness? For example, should we invest mainly in the global cities to improve Europe’s position in the world? 3. Objective 3: to analyse how Europe and its territories position themselves in the world through cooperation and networking with other parts of the world. How this positioning participates in achieving the objectives of improving competitiveness as well as social and territorial cohesion?

4/25 The architecture of the Project

5/25 WP 2.2. Territorial structures in a comparative perspective 1.To provide updated divisions of the world (WUTS) 2.To Compare Europe with other parts of the world according to the main political objectives of EU: competitiveness, social and territorial cohesion 3.To assess the territorial structures of Europe in a comparative 3-D approach: level of concentration (density), inequalities/mobility (distance) and internal mobility (divisions): -To assess the contemporary urban structure in Europe, including the role of gateways. More precisely, to assess the position of European cities in the global networks in a comparative perspective; -To assess the internal mobility in the European space (people, goods and capital) -To assess the territorial inequalities of Europe in a comparative and long term perspective.

6/25 1. European Urban structure in a comparative perspective 1 - Elaboration of a database of all cities with more than inhabitants which include: Population ( ), GDP (six sectors ), airflows and Fortune indicators (2005) 2 – Databases and analyses will be completed with original data coming from Flows and Networks’ WP (2.3). This should include GAWC (2000,2004, 2008), port gateways, financial data (cross-listings and real estates), airflows ( ), Fortune,.. 3 – The analysis should privilege the dynamic aspects since I guess we understand sufficiently well why urban structure is more concentrated in USA. Main questions relate to the dynamics of concentration (metropolitanization? At which scale? National- macro-regional - global) of: -population; -GDP; -High level services; -Air and port networks.

7/25 Basic results

8/25 Basic results : airflows (2)

9/25 The GAWC data to assess Urban network dynamics in a comparative perspective Top Top LON NY HK TOKYO PARIS SINGAPORE CHICAGO MILAN MADRID LOS ANG SYDNEY FRANKFURT NY LON HK PARIS SINGAPORE TOKYO SYDNEY SHANGHAI MILAN BEIJING MADRID MOSCOW NY and LON are now near equivalent - All US cities except New York drop out of top rankings - Cities linking to the WCN from the semi-periphery increase their WCN connectivity, e.g. Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow - Half the top 20 global service centres are now in the Asia Pacific region

10/25 WP 2.3. Flows and networks “Analyse the space of flows at the world level and understand its meaning in terms of territorial development and new territorial structures”, that is: 1.To assess the position of Europe and its territories in different types of flows? -Economic (Regional trade, value chain), -Financial (stock-exchange flows, real estate investments flows at the city level) -Migratory (women, highly qualified) -knowledge (license payments, patent citations) -Transport (maritime, air) 2. Four scales: Europe Countries Regions Cities 3. To assess how the flows related to globalization impact on the territorial structure of Europe?

11/25 Europe and countries in the world trade: a long term perspective The declining position of Europe

12/25 Europe and countries in the world trade: a long term perspective An integrated and not so open economy

13/25 Europe and countries in the world trade: a long term perspective A stable role in the international division of labour

14/25 Europe and countries in the world trade: a long term perspective The changing geographical pattern of Europe’s position in the world trade

15/25 WP 2.4. Political cooperation and networks 1)To analyse the different forms of cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world and to assess which vision of Europe of the world it supports 2)To focus on neighbourhood policies to see whether there is a real integration between Europe and neighbouring regions 3)To assess the “new regionalism” by the analysis of network cooperation and networks of excellence between European actors, including public bodies such as regions, and the rest of the world

16/25 Conclusion 1.Identifying the key-driving forces of globalization and its impact on European territories at different scales in relation with the main political questions 2.To classify European cities and regions according to their position in the global space of flows. On this basis, we can produce: -Prospective results: how globalization trends will impact on European territories -Policy options differentiated according to the city/regions’s position in the world economy.