Measuring hierarchies and systems
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global cities
Inventory of World Cities (GaWC)
This page provides links to the official web sites of those cities initially identified as world cities by GaWC (based on 1998 data).
P.J. Taylor There is a long tradition in conventional urban geography of measuring the hinterlands of towns and cities.
GaWC - Atlas of Hinterworlds
The purpose of this paper is to describe the construction of a set of data that can be used to measure intercity relations. Building on a specification of the world city network as an 'interlocking network' in which business service firms play the crucial role in network formation, information is gathered from global service firms about the size of their presence in a city and about any 'extra-territorial' functions of their offices.
Measurement of the World City Network -- Taylor et al. 39 (13):
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