


The consortium was organized by three research investigators-David Barkin, Gary Hack and Roger Simmonds-to study 12 city regions spread across Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Lincoln Institute’s 1995 Cambridge Conference in September focused on these global forces. Those who focus on urban issues have been arguing for many years that we are seeing the emergence of a new kind of human settlement, with its own distinct social and economic structures and associated physical forms.

Global investment, sophisticated communications, and widespread corporate and personal mobility are transforming city regions around the world.
