Global Urban Analysis

by Taylor, Peter J.; Ni, Pengfei; Derudder, Ben; Hoyler, Michael; Huang, Jin

• ISBN13: 9781849712132
• ISBN10: 1849712131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customized 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 globalness and localness 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.

Author Biography

Peter J. Taylor is professor of Geography and Environment Management at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, and Director of the Globalization and World Cities [GaWC] Research Network. Pengfei Ni is professor of Economics at the institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of social Science [CASS], Beijing, China, and Secretary General of the Global Urban Competitiveness project [GUCP]. Ben Derudder is Lecturer in Human Geography at Ghent University, Belgium, and Associate Director of GaWC. Michael Hoyler is senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK, and Associate Direct of GaWC. Jin Huang is Lecturer at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and Research Fellow at GUCP. Frank Witlox is professor of Economic Geography at Ghent University, Belgium, and Associate Director of Gawc.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xvii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxii
Preface	p. xxv
Introduction: The GUCP/Ga WC Project	p. 1
Global Scale Analysis
Command and Control Centres in the World Economy	p. 17
Advanced Producer Service Centres in the World Economy	p. 22
Media Centres in the World Economy	p. 40
The global city process score	p. 48
- World Regional Connectivity Analyses
	p. 59
Australasian Cities in Globalization	p. 63
Pacific Asian Cities in Globalization	p. 71
Eurasian Cities in Globalization	p. 85
South Asian Cities in Globalization	p. 93
Middle East/North African Cities in Globalization	p. 102
European Cities in Globalization	p. 114
Sub-Saharan Cities in Globalization	p. 137
Northern American cities in Globalization	p. 148
Latin American Cities in Globalization	p. 170
Global Synthesis: Regional Geography of global Servicing	p. 187
Key Country And sub-Regional Connectivity Profiles
Introduction	p. 197
Australian Cities	p. 201
Chinese Cities	p. 205
Japanese Cities	p. 212
Indian Cities	p. 218
German Cities	p. 224
French Cities	p. 231
Swiss cities	p. 236
Italian Cities	p. 241
UK Cities	p. 245
Canadian Cities	p. 251
US Cities	p. 256
Mexican Cities	p. 267
Brazilian Cities	p. 272
South East Asian Cities	p. 278
Arabian Gulf Cities	p. 284
European post-soviet Cities	p. 288
Eastern European Cities	p. 293
Nordic Cities	p. 300
Benelux Cities	p. 306
Iberian Cities	p. 312
Southern African Cities	p. 318
Central American Cities	p. 324
Global Synthesis: national and sub-regional contrasts	p. 331
Postscript: Trends and Change	p. 337
Lists of Firms and Cities
Firms listed in the Forbes Global 2000 (2006)	p. 351
All 200 firms in the network analyses	p. 396
All 525 cities in the network analyses	p. 400
Technical Appendix
Data collection: manual for data collectors	p. 412
Data transformation: network connectivity and hinterworld calculation	p. 424
Index	p. 427
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