METROPOLIZATION PROCESSES IN EUROPE: NEW MODELS OF URBAN ECONOMY SPECIALIZATION

Abstract

Since cities are the exact place where global economy is produced and redis-
tributed their economy is highly resistible to any negative changes in state of the
world market. What causes this steadiness effect is specific specialization model in
contemporary peculiarities of global urban competition. The analysis of sources
and structure as well as agents of regulation is presented in the following report. In
the article there was analyzed the evolution of governmental strategies in urban sys-
tems development according to challenges throughout the XX century, grounding of
hierarchy specialization model of modern global cities and search for crucial suc-
cessful factors which enable the proper level of urban functions realization. Touch
upon existing EU effective models of creativity and analyzing their differences and
performance. The hierarchy specialization model of competitive urban economy de-
veloped by the author, the actual mechanisms comparison of creativity models re-
alization are presented in the following article.
Key words: metropolis, metropolisation, global city, specialization, forth-sec-
tor services, advanced producer services, creative local environment