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Can a network of small and medium-sized cities integrate their cultural service \nprovision or promote innovative cultural policy to the extent of being recognized \nat a national or even international level? How can such a network lever the legacy \nof past urban regeneration in a period of economic stagnation? Starting from \nthese questions, this chapter highlights international attempts and examples of \nthis trend in Europe and comments on current contributions in academic and \ncultural policy literature. More specifically, the chapter addresses the original \nattempts and tentative solutions in an Italian case study: since the mid-2000s, \nseven medium-sized municipalities in the Northern Milanese subregion have \nstarted to come to terms with common problems of potential redundancy in local \ncultural services. They have also faced the problems of promoting cultural initiatives \nin a sustainable way and representing them in a metropolitan region that \nis dominated by and centred in the capital city of Milan. These problems were \naddressed by trying to assemble, rescale, and reprogram part of the governance \nof cultural service provision, in artistic and creative production and other policy \nfields. At the same time, the network has promoted outstanding projects in order \nto compete globally, but on the way it has encountered significant political and \nfinancial difficulties and failures. \nThese issues are common to many parts of Europe. This chapter suggests that \na number of sustainability and managerial problems emerging in cultural policy \nnetworking can be better understood if connected to urban development processes \nand the related economic interests.
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