Michael Hoyler

Staatsexamen (University of Heidelberg)

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

email: M.Hoyler@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 222740
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930

Room NN.1.13, Martin Hall building, East Park

Research Interests

My research interests are in urban economic and social geography with a focus on the transformation of European cities and metropolitan regions in contemporary globalization (and its historical antecedents). I am particularly interested in the creation of urban knowledge spaces and flows through the practices of professional service firms and other institutions (e.g. universities). Research themes include:

• Globalization and world cities

• Polycentricity and the rescaling of urban governance

• European financial centre relations

• Cultural policies and urban development

• Academic mobility and the geographies of higher education

Much of this research is conducted under the auspices of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, where I head the European Cities Research Unit as Associate Director of GaWC.

Major Research Projects

Benchmarking the World City Network: City Connectivities on the Eve of the Current Financial Crisis (2009-10; with K. Pain and P.J. Taylor; funded by the ESRC)

Cities in Economic Expansion and Current Crisis of the Modern World-System (2007-10; with D. Smith and P.J. Taylor; funded by the Leverhulme Trust)

POLYNET: Sustainable Management of European Polycentric Mega-City Regions (2003-06; Co-director research team Rhine-Main; funded by the European Regional Development Fund (Interreg IIIB NWE), the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, and the University of Heidelberg)

Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban Change (2000-01; with J.V. Beaverstock, P. Meusburger, K. Pain and P.J. Taylor; funded by the Anglo-German Foundation)

Recent Publications (since 2008)

Books and Edited Journal Issues

Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Taylor, P.J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) 2012, International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J. and Witlox, F. (eds.) 2011, Global Urban Analysis: A Survey of Cities in Globalization, London: Earthscan.

Hoyler, M., Lüthi, S. and Thierstein, A. (eds.) 2011, German Cities in the World City Network, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 69(3).

Hoyler, M., Kloosterman, R.C. and Sokol, M. (eds.) 2008, Globalization, City-Regions and Polycentricity in North-West Europe, Regional Studies, 42(8).

Journal Articles

External relations of German cities through intra-firm networks - a global perspective, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 69(3), 2011: 147-159.

Introduction: German cities in the world city network, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 69(3), 2011: 141-146 (with A. Thierstein and S. Lüthi).

Goodbye Reykjavik: international banking centres and the global financial crisis, Area, 43(2), 2011: 173-182 (with B. Derudder and P.J. Taylor).

The changing geography of globalized service provision, 2000-2008, The Service Industries Journal, 31(14), 2011: 2293-2307 (with H. Hanssens, B. Derudder, P.J. Taylor, P. Ni, J. Huang, X. Yang and F. Witlox).

External urban relational process: introducing central flow theory to complement central place theory, Urban Studies, 47(13), 2010: 2803-2818 (with P.J. Taylor and R. Verbruggen).

Explosive city growth in the modern world-system: an initial inventory derived from urban demographic changes, Urban Geography, 31(7), 2010: 865-884 (with P.J. Taylor, A. Firth and D. Smith).

Pathways of change: shifting connectivities in the world city network, 2000-08, Urban Studies, 47(9), 2010: 1861-1877 (with B. Derudder, P.J. Taylor, P. Ni, A. De Vos, H. Hanssens, D. Bassens, J. Huang, F. Witlox, W. Shen and X. Yang).

World city integration in the Eurasian realm, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 51(3), 2010: 385-401 (with D. Bassens, B. Derudder, P.J. Taylor, P. Ni, J. Huang and F. Witlox).

Contemporary Mappa Mundi: American exceptionalism in the world city network, Environment and Planning A, 42(6), 2010: 1271-1272 (with S. Vinciguerra, P.J. Taylor and K. Pain).

Balancing London? A preliminary investigation of the "Core Cities" and "Northern Way" spatial policy initiatives using multi-city corporate and commercial law firms, European Planning Studies, 18(8), 2010: 1285-1299 (with P.J. Taylor, D.M. Evans and J. Harrison).

The UK space economy as practised by advanced producer service firms: identifying two distinctive polycentric city-regional processes in contemporary Britain, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(3), 2009: 700-718 (with P.J. Taylor, D.M. Evans, B. Derudder and K. Pain).

Spaces and networks of musical creativity in the city, Geography Compass, 3(2), 2009: 856-878 (with A. Watson and C. Mager).

The way we were: command-and-control centres in the global space-economy on the eve of the 2008 geo-economic transition, Environment and Planning A, 41(1), 2009: 7-12 (with P.J. Taylor, P. Ni, B. Derudder, J. Huang, F. Lu, K. Pain, F. Witlox, X. Yang, D. Bassens and W. Shen).

Polycentric puzzles - emerging mega-city regions seen through the lens of advanced producer services, Regional Studies, 42(8), 2008: 1055-1064 (with R.C. Kloosterman and M. Sokol).

Connecting Rhine-Main: The production of multi-scalar polycentricities through knowledge-intensive business services, Regional Studies, 42(8), 2008: 1095-1111 (with T. Freytag and C. Mager).

A geohistorical study of 'the rise of modern science': mapping scientific practice through urban networks, 1500-1900, Minerva, 46(4), 2008: 391-410 (with P.J. Taylor and D.M. Evans).

Kampf um Talente? Internationalisierung britischer Universitäten durch ausländische Wissenschaftler, Geographische Rundschau, 60(6), 2008: 60-64 (with H. Jöns).

Book Chapters (selected)

Globalization and the city, in Leyshon, A., Lee, R., McDowell, L. and Sunley, P. (eds.) 2011, The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography. London: SAGE, 189-201 (with J.V. Beaverstock and J.R. Faulconbridge).

Europäische Zentren der Naturwissenschaften 1500 bis 1900, in Meusburger, P. and Schuch, T. (eds.) 2011, Wissenschaftsatlas der Universität Heidelberg. Knittlingen: Bibliotheca Palatina, 76-77 (with P.J. Taylor).

Hettner, A., in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) 2009, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 5. Oxford: Elsevier, 120-121.

Class of their own, in Keeney, J. (ed.) 2009, Melbourne: Global Smart City. Sydney: ETN Communications, 36-45 (with H. Jöns).

Global knowledge nodes and networks, in Johnson, C., Hu, R. and Abedin, S. (eds.) 2008, Connecting Cities: Networks. Sydney: Metropolis Congress, 124-151 (with H. Jöns).

Chinese cities in contemporary globalisation, in Johnson, C., Hu, R. and Abedin, S. (eds.) 2008, Connecting Cities: China. Sydney: Metropolis Congress, 18-43 (with P.J. Taylor).

Detailed List of Publications, many of which are available through Loughborough University's Institutional Repository.

Editorships

I am the Website Editor of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) and was Managing Editor of the Hettner Lectures book series (1998-2007; published by Franz Steiner Verlag). I am also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Raumforschung und Raumordnung.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching

• Tutorials
• Cartography and Digital Mapping (module convenor)
• Geographies of Modern Europe (module convenor)
• Human Geography Fieldcourse Paris (module convenor)
• Independent Geographical Essay

• Dissertations

Administrative Responsibilities

• Admissions Tutor for all undergraduate programmes in Geography