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World cities in the Pacific Rim: a new global test of regional coherence

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posted on 2013-07-17, 09:34 authored by Peter J. Taylor, M.A. Doel, Michael HoylerMichael Hoyler, David R.F. Walker, Jonathan V. Beaverstock
A new evaluation of the Pacific Rim concept is presented. The originality of this test for regional coherence is to be found in the basic units being analysed: cities instead of states. Based on a theoretical framework that identifies world city and world city network formation in terms of the office networks of advanced producer service firms, we use a principal components analysis to analyse a data set of 28 Pacific Rim cities and 46 global service firms. This identifies five main groupings of cities in terms of similar mixes of corporate service firms: a western Rim group; a group of ‘old Commonwealth’ cities; a market communist group of cities; Tokyo as a global city; and US cities as a specific separate group. These results confirm the numerous earlier studies that were sceptical of the existence of a coherent Pacific Rim region. However, the particular approach adopted here allows us to identify the Pacific Rim generically as a particularly pernicious construct. We conclude that the Pacific Rim is a geographical chaotic conception.

Funding

The authors acknowledge the support of the ESRC for this research: the data derived from project R000222050 and the ideas for the application from project R000222693.

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  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Citation

TAYLOR, P.J. ... et al, 2000. World cities in the Pacific Rim: a new global test of regional coherence. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21 (3), pp.233-245.

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© Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, and Blackwell Publishers Ltd

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2000

Notes

The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

ISSN

0129-7619

Language

  • en

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