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World city network : a global urban analysis /

"With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global.' In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is th...

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Main Authors: Taylor, Peter J. Peter James, 1944
Group Author: Derudder, Ben
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Subjects:
Cities and towns
Globalization
Intergovernmental cooperation
Business networks
Information networks
Regionalism
Service industries
Economic geography
Financial crises
Global environmental change
Summary: "With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global.' In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network. Taylor and Derudder's unique and illuminating book provides both an update and a substantial revision of the first edition that was published in 2004. It provides a comprehensive and systematic descr
Carrier Form: xvii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138843578 (paperback) :
1138843571 (paperback)
9781138843554 (hardback)
1138843555 (hardback)
9781315730950 (ebook)
Index Number: HT119
CLC: F290
Call Number: F290/T245/2nd ed.
Contents: Part A. Introductions -- Cities in globalization -- Studying the external relations of cities I : from national urban systems to world/global cities -- Studying the external relations of cities II : the GaWC extension -- Part B. World city network analyses -- The interlocking network model : specification and application -- Global network connectivities of cities -- Network connectivities of city-dyads -- Configurations of the world city network -- Change in the world city network -- Part C. Concluding thoughts -- The odd couple : cities and states.

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