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The network dimension
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posted on 2014-07-21, 14:23 authored by Ben Derudder, Michael HoylerMichael Hoyler, Peter J. TaylorThere is now a considerable literature on the role of cities as key nodes in an
increasingly globalized economy. One expression of this can be found in
recent large edited volumes such as this one: for instance, Scott (2001),
Brenner and Keil (2006), Taylor et al. (2007, 2011, 2013) and Derudder et al.
(2012) have mustered over 300 chapters between them but still represent
only the tip of this particular iceberg. Within this literature, the research in the
context of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC,
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc) research network has pioneered a relational
approach to understanding cities in globalization as a ‘world city network’
(WCN). One area of focus has been the formal analysis of inter-city relations
of cities based on a precise specification of the WCN as an ‘interlocking
network’ (e.g. Taylor, 2001; Taylor et al. 2011). In the initial specification of
this model and in much of the subsequent empirical WCN research, it is put
forward that globalized producer services firms are the key ‘network makers’:
drawing on the work of Sassen (1991) and Castells (1996), it is posited that
these firms 'interlock' cities through their global, city-centred location
strategies.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the PracticePages
33 - 46Citation
DERUDDER, B., HOYLER, M. and TAYLOR, P.J., 2013. The network dimension. IN: ACUTO, M. and STEELE, W. (eds). Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 33 - 46Publisher
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2013Notes
This book chapter was published in the book Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice [© Palgrave Macmillan]. The publisher's website is at: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/.ISBN
9781137286864Publisher version
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