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This paper builds upon world city network studies using the interlocking network model to introduce an additional way of measuring inter-city connectivity. Using firms' service values for cities to indicate directions of potential workflows, a new measure of asymmetric network connectivity is specified to include uneven power relations in the analysis. This is then employed in analyses of the latest...
Using the Forbes2000 list of largest corporations for 2010, revenues generated by companies are aggregated for the cities in which they are headquartered. From this data cities are ranked by sector and overall. The main finding is how overwhelmingly well Tokyo does in this empirical exercise. This is despite Japan’s ‘economic miracle’ stalling two decades ago. We use Jane Jacobs interpretation of...
The interlocking network model of inter-city relations is used to evaluate Brazilian cities within contemporary globalization. Using data on 31 leading banks in Brazil across 30 Brazilian city-regions/detatched cities and 25 world cities, interlock connectivities are computed for overall, domestic and transnational links. From these results, cartograms are constructed to show Brazilian inter-city...
There are three purposes: (1) to illustrate diversity amongst world cities; (2) to show how this reflects/constitutes power relativities between cities; and (3) to place debates on diversity and power on a firm empirical basis. The power of cities is interpreted both as a capacity (''power over'') and as a medium (''power to''). World cities are treated as global service centres and the world city...
This is a plea for global-scale analyses of social change with particular reference to the study of the hypothesis that there is a world city hierarchy. Data deficiencies (state-centrism and attribute bias) and theoretical limitations in conceptualizing how a world city hierarchy might develop are highlighted and suggestions for overcoming these problems are presented. Empirically, this involves...
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