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Global Urban Analysis
A Survey of Cities in Globalization
Edited By Peter J. Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang and Frank Witlox
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Hardback
October 2010 •
300 pages •
234 x 156mm •
ISBN 9781849712132
Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of London, New York and Hong Kong be tracked as well as Manchester, Cleveland and Guangzhou, and even Plymouth, Chattanooga and Xi'an. Cities are assessed and ranked in terms of their importance for various functions such as for financial services, legal services and advertising, as well as for the geographical orientations of their connections.
This is truly a comprehensive survey of cities in globalization covering global, world-regional, and national scales of analysis:
- 4 key chapters outline the global structure of the world economy featuring the leading cities;
- 9 regional chapters covering the whole world also feature the level of services provided by 'medium' cities;
- 22 chapters on selected countries and sub-regions indicate global-ness and local-ness and feature an even wider range of cities.
Written in an easy to understand style, this book is a must read for anybody interested in their own city in the world and how it relates to other cities.
CONTENTS (Expand Contents)
Preface
1. Introduction: the GUCP/GaWC Project
Part I: GLOBAL-SCALE ANALYSES
2. Command and Control Centres in the World Economy
3. Advanced Producer Service Centres in the World Economy
4. Media Centres in the World Economy
5. The Global City Process Score
Part II: WORLD-REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSES
Introduction
6. Australasian Cities in Globalization
7. Pacific Asian Cities in Globalization
8. Eurasian Cities in Globalization
9. South Asian Cities in Globalization
10. Middle East/North African Cities in Globalization
11. European Cities in Globalization
12. Sub-Saharan Cities in Globalization
13. Northern American Cities in Globalization
14. Latin American Cities in Globalization
Global Synthesis: Regional Geography of Global Servicing
Part III: KEY COUNTRY & SUB-REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY PROFILES
Introduction
15. Australian Cities
16. Chinese Cities
17. Japanese Cities
18. Indian Cities
19. German Cities
20. French Cities
21. Swiss Cities
22. Italian Cities
23. UK Cities
24. Canadian Cities
25. USA Cities
26. Mexican Cities
27. Brazilian Cities
28. South East Asian Cities
29. Arabian Gulf Cities
30. European Post-Soviet Cities
31. Eastern European Cities
32. Nordic Cities
33. Benelux Cities
34. Iberian Cities
35. Southern African Cities
36. Central American Cities
Global Synthesis: National and Sub-Regional Contrasts
POSTSCRIPT
Trends and Change
APPENDICES
A: Lists of Firms and Cities
(i) Firms listed in Forbes 2000 (2006)
(ii) All 200 firms in the network analyses
(iii) All 525 cities in the network analyses
B: Technical Appendix
(i) Data collection: Manual for data collectors
(ii) Data transformation: Network connectivity and hinterworld calculation
Peter J. Taylor is Professor of Geography at Loughborough University, UK, and Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is author of over 300 publications of which 60 plus have been translated into one or more of 23 languages.
Pengfei Ni is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China. He is Secretary General of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project (GUCP), and Chief Editor of the Chinese Urban Competitiveness Report and the Global Urban Competitiveness Report.
Ben Derudder is Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium, and Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. His research focuses on the analysis of transnational urban networks, the importance of business travel in the space economy, and spatial modelling techniques.
Michael Hoyler is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK, and Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. His research interests are in urban economic and social geography with a focus on the transformation of European cities and metropolitan regions in contemporary globalization.
Jin Huang is a Lecturer at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, and a Research Fellow at the Global Urban Competitiveness Project (GUCP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). His main research field is management science.
Frank Witlox is Professor of Economic Geography at the Geography Department of Ghent University, Belgium, and Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. His research focuses on transport economics and geography, spatial modelling techniques, (city) logistics, world cities and globalization, and urban planning.
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