Events

Global Power City Index: Toward an Urban Geopolitics?

Presentation of Research Findings

Speakers include:

Heizo Takenaka
Director, Global Security Research Institute
Keio University
Chair, Board of The Mori Memorial Foundation
Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Japan

Hiroo Ichikawa
Dean Graduate School of Public Policy
Meiji University

Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, and
Committee on Global Thought
Columbia University

Takayuki Kubo, JIA
Architect and Researcher
The Mori Memorial Foundation

The speakers will discuss the research findings and larger implications of the Global Cities Power Index project, produced by the Institute for Urban Strategies of The Mori Memorial Foundation (Tokyo). The report, released in October 2009, examines 35 global cities through 69 indicators covering Economy, Research & Development, Cultural Interaction, Livability, Ecology & Natural Environment, and Accessibility. One implication of the growth of intercity networks is the emergence of an urban geopolitics. Many of our major governance challenges become concrete and urgent in these cities. Urban leaderships -political, corporate, economic- are under more immediate pressure to act on these conditions than national governments.

Cosponsored by ISERP and the Mori Memorial Foundation

**NOTE: Event location changed to Avery Hall**