link Specification of the World City Network de P.J. Taylor
Abstract
World cities are generally deemed to form an
urban system or city network but these are never explicitly specified in
the literature. In this paper the world city network is identified as
an unusual form of network with three levels of structure: cities as the
nodes, the world economy as the supra-nodal network level, and advanced
producer firms forming a critical sub-nodal level. The latter create an
interlocking network through their global location strategies for
placing offices. Hence it is the advanced producer service firms
operating through cities who are the prime actors in world city network
formation. This process is formally specified in terms of four
inter-city relational matrices - elemental, proportional, distance and
asymmetric. Through this specification it becomes possible to apply
standard techniques of network analysis to world cities for the first
time. In a short conclusion the relevance of this world city network
specification for both theory and policy-practice is briefly discussed.
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