In
what ways are global city-regions' capabilities to generate
wealth enhanced or threatened by international flows of
capital, people, goods and information?
What
policy strategies can be devised to create and sustain local
competitive advantages and to ensure economic growth, while
bringing wasteful inter-regional competition for mobile
investments under control?
How can social well-being and environmental quality be secured
in global city-regions when these often seem to be endangered
by increasing urbanization and globalization?
How do we plan for the public interest in multicultural
cities with multiple publics?
What alternative institutional arrangements need to be developed
to deal with strategic region-wide policy issues and to
ensure effective governance of inter-regional relations
in the emerging new world order? Can global city-regions
be the architects of their own future?
