New Neapolis

In a world where cities are becoming more important than countries Rotterdam Liverpool Marseilles and Naples could form a cities gang All four are working class multicultural and internationally oriented and have been influenced significantly by urban planning and nineteenthcentury and modernist urges to demolish They share a clichéd sense of inferiority and often top the wrong charts They are currently undergoing an international reevaluation including ongoing processes of gentrification Their shared characteristics could form the basis for a gang of cities capable of taking on the world Or even showing the world how it could be done