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US Cities: Surrogate Measures of Relations, 1990

T.R. Longcore, C. McWilliams and P.J. Taylor


These data consist of place mentions on the front page of the business section of the following city newspapers: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, New York Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. This was a data collection experiment using 1990 as sample year within which 24 days were selected for examination. The latter were chosen as follows: the first working day of each month plus the same day the following week. A total of 4246 place references were recorded. There is some analysis of these data in GaWC Research Bulletin 1 and further discussion of the measurement methodology in GaWC Research Bulletin 2.

Dataset 1.1: World-wide place references for the business communities of six US cities.
Dataset 1.2: US city place references for the business communities of six US cities.


As per our data protocol, the following acknowledgement should accompany any public use of the data:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: These data were produced by T.R. Longcore, C. McWilliams and P.J. Taylor and constitute Data Set 1 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/) publication of inter-city data.