Description
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, plus novel findings are reported 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.
Table of Contents
Preface1. Introduction: the GUCP/GaWC Project Part I: GLOBAL-SCALE ANALYSES2. Command and Control Centres in the World Economy 3. Advanced Producer Service Centres in the World Economy 4. Media Centres in the World Economy5. The Global City Process Score Part II: WORLD-REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSESIntroduction 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 ServicingPart III: KEY COUNTRY & SUB-REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY PROFILESIntroduction 15. Australian Cities16. Chinese Cities17. Japanese Cities18. Indian Cities19. German Cities20. French Cities21. Swiss Cities22. Italian Cities23. UK Cities24. Canadian Cities25. USA Cities26. Mexican Cities27. Brazilian Cities28. South East Asian Cities29. Arabian Gulf Cities30. European Post-Soviet Cities31. Eastern European Cities32. Nordic Cities33. Benelux Cities34. Iberian Cities35. Southern African Cities36. Central American CitiesGlobal Synthesis: National and Sub-Regional ContrastsPOSTSCRIPTTrends and ChangeAPPENDICESA: 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 analysesB: Technical Appendix(i) Data collection: Manual for data collectors(ii) Data transformation: Network connectivity and hinterworld calculation
