The uncertain metropolization of Rome: economy, space and governance
Since the early 1990s, urban studies have been engaged with the issue of scale, so much so that the ‘urban question’ (Castells 1972) has also become a ‘scale question’, which means “systematically rethinking the relations between urban spaces and supra-urban processes of capital accumulation, political regulation and social struggle” (Brenner 2000: 361). In particular, the issue of scale draws attention to debates regarding changes in metropolitan areas and the role of political rescaling (Brenner 2004).