Financialization in the Global City

Abstract The affirmation that financialization progressively replaces the state in the assembly of significant parts of the city also characterizes the way of understanding urban infrastructure. The claim, therefore, needs to be proved. The choice falls on a case study, able to focus on financialization and set-up applied to the Real Estate and to the urban infrastructure of the global cities. In order to see the effects it is therefore necessary to verify its evolution. Milan is chosen, the most global city of the last thirty years in Italy. The evolution of the last 20 years is analyzed and an attempt is made to verify the intertwining between new forms of Real Estate and the new evolution of urban infrastructures.