World City Network; A Global Urban Analysis
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Peter Taylor's masterful synthesis is arguably the most important contribution to the study of global urbanization since the publication of Saskia Sassen's The Global City over a decade ago. The volume contains a trove of original empirical data that provides the most detailed, nuanced mapping of the emergent global urban system that has yet been developed. This book is a major intervention that will open up an entirely new terrain of theoretical debate and empirical inquiry for urbanists as well as for other scholars of contemporary globalization.
-Neil Brenner, New York University
A plausible view of contemporary globalization is that the world is caught between pressures for an increasingly city-based political economy and for the resurgence of state-based direction. Peter Taylor lays out a brilliant, historically-informed account of how this came to pass. Not the least of the book's merits is its persuasive use of sophisticated empirical information to counter the often sloppy empiricism of so much contemporary discussion of world cities and what they might portend.
-John Agnew, University of California
An excellent book that maps the countours of inter-city relations at various scales with unprecedented clarity, sophistication, and historical focus. World City Network will help to sharpen often vague and lazy current debates about globalization and cities.
-Steve Graham, University of Newcastle
Much has been claimed about the importance of world cities but only now--with the arrival of Peter Taylor's book--do we have the evidence to make an informed assessment.
-John Allen, The Open University
Book Description
In this era of advanced communication technologies, ideas, data, and knowledge can be communicated without regard to geographical distance. On any given day, a business deal in China led by a firm in Chicago may be organized through Hong Kong without any need to connect to New York.
In World City Network, Peter Taylor views cities as global service centers that provide international financial and business services. In devising seamless global services for clients, these companies link firms together in a global city network. Through an analysis of the intra-company flows of 100 global business service firms Taylor measures the connections between cities and also their relative connectivity to the global economy.
World City Network; A Global Urban Analysis
World City Network,Peter Taylor,Routledge,0415302498,Cities and towns,Globalization,Human Geography,Information networks,Intergovernmental cooperation,Networking - General,Service industries,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - Urban,Communication Studies,Social Science / Human Geography,Urban communities
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