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The GaWC Annual Lecture is held every year in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University with a transcript of the lecture and discussion provided here. The Inaugural Lecture was given by Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago) in 1999. THE 13th GaWC ANNUAL LECTUREGaWC Annual Lecture 2011: Global Urban Hierarchies and Cultural Industries Abstract: Why are some cities doing better in terms of cultural industries than some other cities? Size, as is often the case, matters. We, however, want to go beyond that and explore to what extent the position in the global urban hierarchy matters in determining the role and contribution of cultural industries in cities. We hypothesised that not just the current position in the global hierarchy is important, but - through path-dependent processes - also the position in the past. We focus on two groups of cities. The first group comprises those cities which now occupy a similar position in the global urban system. The second group of cities concerns those cities which at some point of their history have been the financial and economic centre of the (western) global urban system (Genoa, Amsterdam, London, and New York). According to our findings, the past indeed matters, but the present even more.
PAST LECTURESGaWC Annual Lecture 2010: Global Cities and the Creative Economy GaWC Annual Lecture 2009: World Cities and Airline Networks GaWC Annual Lecture 2008: The Study of Cities: Historical and Structural Approaches (power point presentation) GaWC Annual Lecture 2007: China's Urban Revolution: Globalization and Urban Development in Transitional Markets (presentation) GaWC Annual Lecture 2006: Power and World Cities GaWC Annual Lecture 2005: London: Europe's New York (power point presentation; pdf) GaWC Annual Lecture 2004: World Cities, Mega-Cities and Global Mega-City-Regions (power point presentation) GaWC Annual Lecture 2003: The Globalization of Law (power point presentation) (summary) GaWC Annual Lecture 2002: Cities and Globalization GaWC Annual Lecture 2001: Splintering Urbanism: Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition GaWC Annual Lecture 2000: Global Cities and Developmental States: Understanding Singapore's Global Reach GaWC Annual Lecture 1999: The Spatiality and Temporality of Globalization
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