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)

The Changing Geography of Global Law Firms (2007- ; with J.V. Beaverstock, J.R. Faulconbridge, D. Muzio and P.J. Taylor; organized through the Law Firms Working Group, Indiana University School of Law and American Bar Foundation)

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)

Current Working Papers

The changing geography of globalized service provision, 2000-2008 (with H. Hanssens, B. Derudder, P.J. Taylor, P. Ni, J. Huang, X. Yang and F. Witlox), GaWC Research Bulletin 331.

Goodbye Reykjavik: international banking centres and the global financial crisis (with B. Derudder and P.J. Taylor), GaWC Research Bulletin 320.

Explosive city growth in the modern world-system: an initial inventory derived from urban demographic changes (with P.J. Taylor, A. Firth and D. Smith), GaWC Research Bulletin 316.

Pathways of growth and decline: connectivity changes in the world city network, 2000-2008 (with B. Derudder, P.J. Taylor, P. Ni, A. De Vos, D. Bassens, J. Huang, F. Witlox and X. Yang), GaWC Research Bulletin 310.

External urban relational process: introducing central flow theory to complement central place theory (with P.J. Taylor and R. Verbruggen), GaWC Research Bulletin 261.

Balancing London? A preliminary investigation of the 'Core Cities' and 'Northern Way' spatial policy initiatives using multi-city corporate and commercial law firms (with P.J. Taylor, D.M. Evans and J. Harrison), GaWC Research Bulletin 224.

Selected Recent Publications

Taylor, P.J., Evans, D.M., Hoyler, M., Derudder, B. and Pain, K. 2009 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): 700-718.

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

Taylor, P.J., Ni, P., Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Huang, J., Lu, F., Pain, K., Witlox, F., Yang, X., Bassens, D. and Shen, W. 2009 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): 7-12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faulconbridge, J., Engelen, E., Hoyler, M. and Beaverstock, J. 2007 Analysing the changing landscape of European financial centres: the role of financial products and the case of Amsterdam, Growth and Change, 38(2): 279-303.

Mager, C. and Hoyler, M. 2007 HipHop als Hausmusik: globale Sounds und (sub)urbane Kontexte, in Helms, D. and Phleps, T. (eds.), Sound and the City: Populäre Musik im urbanen Kontext (Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, 35). Bielefeld: transcript, 45-64.

Hoyler, M., Freytag, T. and Mager, C. 2006 Advantageous fragmentation? Reimagining metropolitan governance and spatial planning in Rhine-Main, Built Environment, 32(2): 124-136.

Freytag, T., Hoyler, M., Mager, C. and Fischer, C. 2006 Rhine-Main: Making polycentricity work? in Hall, P. and Pain, K. (eds.), The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. London: Earthscan, 163-171.

Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J. 2006 In London's long shadow: Frankfurt in the European space of flows, in Amen, M.M., Archer, K. and Bosman, M.M. (eds.), Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 23-47.

Hoyler, M. and Mager, C. 2005 'HipHop ist im Haus': Cultural policy, community centres, and the making of hip-hop music in Germany, Built Environment, 31(3): 237-254.

Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J. 2005 Demystifying the euro in European financial centre relations: London and Frankfurt, 2000-2001, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 13(2): 143-157.

Hoyler, M. 2005 London and Frankfurt as world cities: global service centres between cooperation and competition, Geographische Rundschau International Edition, 1(2): 48-55.

Hoyler, M. 2005 Transnationale Organisationsstrukturen, vernetzte Städte: ein Ansatz zur Analyse der globalen Verflechtung von Metropolregionen [pdf], Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, (7): 431-438.

Fischer, C., Freytag, T., Hoyler, M. and Mager, C. 2005 Rhein-Main als polyzentrische Metropolregion: zur Geographie der Standortnetze von wissensintensiven Dienstleistungsunternehmen [pdf], Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, (7): 439-446.

Hoyler, M. and Jöns, H. 2005 Themenorte vernetzt gedacht: Reflexionen über iconoclashes und den Umgang mit Repräsentationen in der Geographie, in Flitner, M. and Lossau, J. (eds.) Themenorte. Münster: Lit, 183-200.

Hoyler, M., Freytag, T. and Jöns, H. 2004 Technology, organization, territory: a biographical interview with Michael Storper, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 48(1): 63-72.

Hoyler, M. 2004 Funktionale Verflechtungen zwischen "Weltstädten" - zur Herausbildung eines globalen Städtesystems, in Wüstenrot Stiftung (ed.), Räumlicher Strukturwandel im Zeitalter des Internets: Neue Herausforderungen für Raumordnung und Stadtentwicklung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 261-276.

Taylor, P.J., Walker, D.R.F., Catalano, G. and Hoyler, M. 2002 Diversity and power in the world city network, Cities, 19(4): 231-241.

Taylor, P.J., Hoyler, M., Walker, D.R.F and Szegner, M. 2001 A new mapping of the world for the new millennium, The Geographical Journal, 167(3): 213-222.

Beaverstock, J.V., Hoyler, M., Pain, K. and Taylor, P.J. 2001 Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban Change [pdf]. London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society.

Taylor, P.J. and Hoyler, M. 2000 The spatial order of European cities under conditions of contemporary globalisation, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 91(2): 176-189.

Taylor, P.J., Doel, M.A., Hoyler, M., Walker, D.R.F. and Beaverstock, J.V. 2000 World cities in the Pacific Rim: a new global test of regional coherence, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21(3): 233-245.

Editorships

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

I have recently co-edited a special issue of Regional Studies on 'Globalization, City-Regions and Polycentricity in North-West Europe' and a special issue of Social Geography on 'Global Mobilities and the Knowledge Society'.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching

• Tutorials
• Cartography and Digital Mapping (module convenor)
• Geographies of Modern Europe (module convenor)
• Urban Geography Fieldcourse Paris (module convenor)
• Financial Globalization (MSc) (module convenor)

Administrative Responsibilities

• Admissions Tutor for all undergraduate programmes in Geography