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Updated Publications Audit for Peter Taylor posted.

Call for Papers: Understandig the Global Geographies of the Knowledge-Based Economy: Transformations, Disruptions and Reproductions of Transnational Higher Education, RGS-IBG 2022

GaWC Journal Special Issues page and GaWC Books page updated.

The World According to GaWC: Climate Emergency Edition 2021 posted.

GaWC Books page updated.

Publications Audit for Peter Taylor posted.

Data Set 27 posted: World City Network 2013: Service Value Matrix and Global Network Connectivities
Data Set 28 posted: World City Network 2016: Service Value Matrix and Global Network Connectivities
GaWC Data Tool 4 posted: Computing Inter-City Matrix and Global Network Connectivities with R - A Brief Guide.

The World According to GaWC: City classification for 2020 posted.

GaWC Books page updated.

GaWC Testimonials page updated.

GaWC Books page updated.

Call for Papers: Proximity in a Changing World: A Relational Perspective on Spatial Development, AAG 2020
GaWC Research Bulletin 472 posted: Urban Italy as a Postmetropolitan Territory of Flows

Memoir posted: What Would Calverton Do? Only twenty four essays from Tynemouth

GaWC Research Bulletin 471 posted: Cities in ‘Multiple Globalizations’: Insights from the Upstream Oil and Gas World City Network

GaWC Research Bulletin 470 posted: Städte als regionale Knotenpunkte in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten: das Beispiel der Erdöl- und Erdgasindustrie in Südostasien

New project added: ‘Global Chengdu’: An Analysis of Chengdu’s Position in the Global Economy
Report available online.

The World According to GaWC: City link classification for 2018 posted.

GaWC Media Coverage updated.

The World According to GaWC: City classification for 2018 posted.

Call for Papers: Global City Network and Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations, School of Economics, Shanghai University

GaWC Books page updated.

New project added: The State of African Cities 2018 - The Geography of African Investment
GaWC Books page updated.
Courses at Loughborough updated.
Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance
(GaWC Research Bulletin 468)
Behind the Scenes: The Evolving Urban Networks of Film Production in China
(GaWC Research Bulletin 469)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 466 added.

GaWC Books page updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 467 posted: Associational Life in the Rounding out of Dynamic Cities: An In-depth Methodology and Application to Newcastle City-Region in the Nineteenth Century

GaWC Research Bulletin 466 posted: A Jane Jacobs’ Legacy

Four new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Geohistory of Globalizations
(GaWC Research Bulletin 462)
Urbanization in Global Perspective
(GaWC Research Bulletin 463)
City Generics: Ancient-Mesopotamian and Modern-Global City Networks Compared
(GaWC Research Bulletin 464)
Urban Systems
(GaWC Research Bulletin 465)

GaWC Research Bulletin 461 posted: The New Political Geography of Corporate Globalization
GaWC Books page updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 460 posted: Big or Small Cities? On City Size and Economic Growth
Recent Journal Special Issues by GaWC Researchers updated.

New project added: The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Polycentric Urban Regions (PURs)
Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Exploring the Significance of Domestic Investment for Foreign Direct Investment in China: A City-Network Approach
(GaWC Research Bulletin 458)
Change in Urban Concentration and Economic Growth
(GaWC Research Bulletin 459)

Call for Papers: Launch of the RSA Research Network on Polycentric Urban Regions, RSA Annual Conference 2018

GaWC Research Bulletin 457 posted: Promiscuous Agglomerations: Towards Integrating Urban Agglomerations with Urban Networks

Call for Papers: Urban Hierarchies and the Financial and Economic Crisis After 2008/2009, AAG 2018

Call for Papers: Relational Approaches to Cities in Globalization, AAG 2018

GaWC Research Bulletin 456 posted: Global Cities and the Geographical Transfer of Value

PhD Scholarship in Economic Geography, Australia.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 438 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 455 posted: Multiple Creators of Knowledge-Intensive Service Networks: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta City-Region

The World According to GaWC: City classification for 2016 posted.
Visualization posted: Political Postcards from the Past

Call for Papers: European Financial Geographies in Flux, AAG 2017
Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
World Cities under Conditions of Financialized Globalization: Towards an Augmented World City Hypothesis
(GaWC Research Bulletin 452)
World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization: Unveiling Stratification and Hierarchy in the World City Archipelago
(GaWC Research Bulletin 453)
Urban Dimensions in the EU Referendum Vote: Two Different Approaches to Understanding a New Geography
(GaWC Research Bulletin 454)

GaWC Research Bulletin 451 posted: Megaregions Imaginaries: Excursions through a Dialectical Maze

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Evolution of the World City Network, 2006-2013: The Case of the Organizational Structures in Transnational Corporations
(GaWC Research Bulletin 449)
The Strategic Planning Protagonist: Unveiling the Global Mega-City Region
(GaWC Research Bulletin 450)

New GaWC Associate Director: Xingjian Liu

Call for Papers: Nexus-Thinking the Network: Social Network Analysis, Digital Data, and Complexity in Cultural and Media Production Networks, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Human Control of Climate: Introducing Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 446)
A Trans-modern Understanding of Anthropogenic Climate Change through Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 447)
Ten Antitheses on Cities and States: Challenging the Mindscape of Chronology and Chorography in Anthropogenic Climate Change
(GaWC Research Bulletin 448)

Erratum - Replacement Figure 3.2 (p. 116) for Peter J. Taylor's Extraordinary Cities (2013) posted.

Call for Papers: Practicing Engaged Pluralism When ‘Doing Global Urban Research’, AAG 2016

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Testing a Global City Hypothesis: An Assessment of Polarization across U.S. Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 444)
Are World Cities also World Immigrant Cities? A Cross-City, International Analysis of Global Centrality and Immigration
(GaWC Research Bulletin 445)
GaWC Journal Special Issues page added.

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Borrowing Size in Networks of Cities: City Size, Network Connectivity and Metropolitan Functions in Europe
(GaWC Research Bulletin 441)
Stretching the Concept of 'Borrowed Size
(GaWC Research Bulletin 442)
Las ciudades latinoamericanas en la economía mundial: la geografía de centralidad económica y sus transformaciones recientes
(GaWC Research Bulletin 443)
GaWC Books page updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 440 posted: Managing and Governing Commodity Chains: The Role of Producer Service Firms in the Secondary Global City of Hamburg

GaWC Research Bulletin 439 posted: Global Civil Society from Hyperlink Perspective: Exploring the Online Networks of International NGOs
New project added: Hyperlink Network Geographies

Call for Papers: Urban Elites, AAG 2015

GaWC Research Bulletin 438 posted: How Logistics Link Italian Cities: A City Network Analysis Supported by LinkedIn Data

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Haifa Bay City: From an International Hub to an Anchor to the Global Economy
(GaWC Research Bulletin 436)
Global Environment Change and Global Urban Change: Research Opportunity, Research Practices and Research Obligations
(GaWC Research Bulletin 437)
New project added: The Global City: Past and Present
Call for Papers: Developments in World City Network Analyses, AAG 2015

New project added: Doing Global Urban Research

GaWC Research Bulletin 435 posted: Megacity Dynamics in Globalization: Revisiting Informality
GaWC Resource 5 posted: Bibliographic Survey of 'Interlocking Network Model'-Inspired Research

GaWC Research Bulletin 434 posted: Megaregions: Foundations, Frailties, Futures

New project added: ARL International Summer School 2014 - Global Urban Networks
'Chengdu: A Sample City for Global Research': Report now available online (GaWC Project 95)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 418 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 433 posted: Functional and Sectoral Division of Labour within Central and Eastern European Countries: Evidence from Greenfield FDI

GaWC Research Bulletin 432 posted: Exploring the Linkages between Financialization and Urban Inequalities

The World According to GaWC: City classification for 2012 posted.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 413 added.

Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 369 and 407 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 431 posted: Network or Hierarchical Relations? A Plea for Redirecting Attention to the Control Functions of Global Cities

GaWC Research Bulletin 430 posted: The Command and Control Centers of the United States (2006/2012): An Analysis of Industry Sectors Influencing the Position of Cities

GaWC Research Bulletin 429 posted: Mapping Global Urban Interactions: Maritime Flows and Port Hierarchies since the Late Nineteenth Century

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Newcastle's Long Nineteenth Century: A World-Historical Interpretation of Making a Multi-Nodal City-Region
(GaWC Research Bulletin 427)
The Connectivity of South Asian Cities in Infrastructure Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 428)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 380 added.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 405 added.
About Us page updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 426 posted: World Cities in a System of Nation States

GaWC Research Bulletin 425 posted: Warsaw Metropolitan Region: Alternative Development Perspective

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Remarkable Legacy of Peter Hall’s (1966) The World Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 423)
Regional Spatial Structure and Retail Amenities in the Netherlands
(GaWC Research Bulletin 424)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 273 added.
New research projects added and funder index updated.

Visualization posted: Mapping Connectedness of Global Cities: α, β and γ tiers

GaWC Research Bulletin 422 posted: Wealth Segmentation and the Mobilities of the Super-Rich: A Conceptual Framework
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 404 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Polycentricity and the Multiplexity of Urban Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 420)
Information-rich Visualisation of Dense Geographical Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 421)
Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 401 and 408 added.

Call for Papers: Global City Makers: Economic Actors in the World City Network | Ökonomische Akteure im Weltstadtnetzwerk, Deutscher Geographentag 2013

GaWC Research Bulletin 419 posted: Connecting the "Workshop of the World": Intra- and Extra- Service Networks of the Pearl River Delta City-Region

GaWC Books page updated.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 404 added.

Data Set 26 posted: Global Command and Control Centres, 2006/2009/2012

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Amsterdam's 20th-Century Reemergence as a Global Publishing Hub
(GaWC Research Bulletin 417)
A Research Odyssey: From the Interlocking Network Model for Cities towards a Bi-layered Model of the Global Space-Economy
(GaWC Research Bulletin 418)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Ontology of Global City-Region: A Critique of Statehood
(GaWC Research Bulletin 415)
European Cities in Globalization: A Comparative Analysis based on the Location Strategies of Advanced Producer Services
(GaWC Research Bulletin 416)

GaWC Research Bulletin 414 posted: Towards Financial Geographies of the Unbanked: International Financial Markets, ‘Bancarizacion’ and Access to Financial Services in Latin America

GaWC Research Bulletin 413 posted: Vital Positioning through the World City Network: Advanced Producer Service Firms as Strategic Networks, Global Cities as Strategic Places

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Multi-scalar 'Intercity Connectivities' from a Northern European Perspective
(GaWC Research Bulletin 411)
Performing on the Global Stage: Exploring the Relationship between Finance and Arts in Global Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 412)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 396 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 410 posted: Mapping Shifting Hierarchical and Regional Tendencies in an Urban Network through Alluvial Diagrams

GaWC Research Bulletin 409 posted: The Challenge Facing World City Network Analysis

GaWC Research Bulletin 408 posted: Measurement and Interpretation of the Connectivity of Chinese Cities in the World City Network, 2010

GaWC Research Bulletin 407 posted: City-dyad Analyses of China's Integration into the World City Network
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 369 added.
Call for Papers: Causes and Consequences of the Upscaling of Urban Systems, AAG 2013

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Creating the Right ‘Vibe’: Transient Emotional Journeys in the Recording Studio
(GaWC Research Bulletin 404)
“Running a Studio’s a Silly Business”: Precarious Work and Exploitation in the Contemporary Recording Studio Sector
(GaWC Research Bulletin 405)
“Forget It. No One’s Going to Work with You Again”: Reputation Building, Emotional Labour and Active Networking in the Recording Studio Sector of the Music Industry
(GaWC Research Bulletin 406)

GaWC Research Bulletin 403 posted: Brute Force and Sorting Processes: Two Perspectives on World City Network Formation

Call for Papers: Megaregions: Globalization's New Urban Form?, AAG 2013

GaWC Research Bulletin 402 posted: European Cities as Command and Control Centres, 2006-11
Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 391 and 392 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions
(GaWC Research Bulletin 400)
An Alternative Approach to the Calculation and Analysis of Connectivity in the World City Network
(GaWC Research Bulletin 401)

GaWC Research Bulletin 399 posted: The Spatial Distribution of Transnational Organizations in the Cities of Mainland China
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 386 added.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 358 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 398 posted: Analyzing Urban Networks Through the Lens of Corporate Networks: A Critical Review

GaWC Annual Lecture 2012 'Globalization, Cities and the Rise of Global Work' announced.

GaWC Research Bulletin 397 posted: Mediating the City: The Role of Planned Media Cities in the Geographies of Creative Industry Activity

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 386 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 396 posted: Filling Some Black Holes: Modeling the Connection Between Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Global Service Intensity in 112 Metropolitan Regions across the World
Two new GaWC Resources posted:
The Position of the North Wing within International M&A Networks
(GaWC Resource 3)
The Position of the Dutch 'Noordvleugel' and 'Zuidvleugel' within Worldwide Economic Networks
(GaWC Resource 4)

GaWC Research Bulletin 395 posted: The Spatial Mobility of Corporate Knowledge: Expatriation, Global Talent and the World City

GaWC Research Bulletin 394 posted: Global Cities and the Production of Uneven Development

GaWC Research Bulletin 393 posted: International Sport Federations in the World City Network
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 371 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 392 posted: New Regional Geographies of the World as Practised by Leading Advanced Producer Service Firms in 2010
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 358 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Beyond the Global City Concept
(GaWC Research Bulletin 390)
How Manufacturing Industries Connect Cities across the World: Extending Research on 'Multiple Globalizations'
(GaWC Research Bulletin 391)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 370 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 389 posted: The Global Super-Rich, Private Wealth Management and the City of London

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 344 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
A Bibliometric Analysis of Twenty Years of Globalization Research: 1990-2009
(GaWC Research Bulletin 387)
City Networks in the United States: A Comparison of Four Models
(GaWC Research Bulletin 388)

The World According to GaWC: City classification for 2010 posted.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Strategic Urban Planning: Towards the Making of a Transnational Urban Policy?
(GaWC Research Bulletin 385)
Sociological Perspectives on the Economic Geography of Projects: The Case of Project-Based Working in the Creative Industries
(GaWC Research Bulletin 386)

GaWC Research Bulletin 384 posted: Cities in Transformation - What Role for the State?

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
GDP, Livability, Population, and Income Inequality of World Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 382)
Two-mode Networks and the Interlocking World City Network Model: A Reply to Neal
(GaWC Research Bulletin 383)

Call for Papers: GaWC's Interlocking Network Model - Foundations, Applications, and Critiques, AAG 2012

New GaWC Resource posted:
Shanghai Expo 2010 - A Visitor Survey of the Belgian EU Pavilion
(GaWC Resource 2)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Cities in the Core-Periphery Economic Structure of the Modern World-System: Polarization or Convergence?
(GaWC Research Bulletin 380)
Cities as Control and Command Centres: Analysis and Interpretation
(GaWC Research Bulletin 381)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
External Relations of German Cities through Intra-firm Networks - A Global Perspective
(GaWC Research Bulletin 378)
Structural Determinism in the Interlocking World City Network
(GaWC Research Bulletin 379)

GaWC Research Bulletin 377 posted: Milan as Italy's Leading City in the World City Network of the Early Twenty First Century

GaWC Research Bulletin 376 posted: Transition Towns and World Cities: Towards Green Networks of Cities

New research project added: Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF)
World City Research page updated.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Knowledge Globalization in Urban Studies and Planning: A Network Analysis of International Co-authorships
(GaWC Research Bulletin 374)
Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations between Archaeology and Social Science
(GaWC Research Bulletin 375)

GaWC Research Bulletin 373 posted: Mega-cities in Theoretical Perspective

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Configuring the New ‘Regional World’: On Being Caught Between Territory and Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 370)
From Places to Flows? Planning for the New ‘Regional World’ in Germany
(GaWC Research Bulletin 371)
The Map of Multilateral Treaty-Making 1600-2000: A Contribution to the Historical Geography of Diplomacy
(GaWC Research Bulletin 372)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 287 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 369 posted: Extensive and Intensive Globalizations: Explicating the Low Connectivity Puzzle of US Cities Using a City-dyad Analysis

GaWC Research Bulletin 368 posted: A Robustness Assessment of GaWC Global Network Connectivity Ranking

GaWC Research Bulletin 367 posted: Heterogeneous Development of Metropolitan Spatial Structure: Evidence from Commuting Patterns in English and Welsh City-Regions, 1981-2001

GaWC Research Bulletin 366 posted: Contra-Weber: A Jacobsean Take on German Cities in Europe through the Last Millennium

GaWC Books page updated.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Worldwide Maritime Network of Container Shipping: Spatial Structure and Regional Dynamics
(GaWC Research Bulletin 364)
Differentiating Centrality and Power in the World City Network
(GaWC Research Bulletin 365)
New research project added: The Dutch North-Wing within International Foreign Direct Investment Networks
Video clip: The Position of the Dutch 'Noordvleugel' Region within International Foreign Direct Investment Networks

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 350 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 363 posted: Nomos and Space: The Spatial Turn and Contemporary Thought

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for August 2010

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
More than an Ordinary City: The Role of Mexico City in Global Commodity Chains
(GaWC Research Bulletin 361)
Global Cities, Office Markets and Capital Flows
(GaWC Research Bulletin 362)
Call for Papers: Hub Cities and the Knowledge Economy, AAG 2011

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Extraordinary Cities I: Early ‘City-ness’ and the Invention of Agriculture
(GaWC Research Bulletin 359)
Extraordinary Cities II: Early ‘City-ness’ and the Invention of States
(GaWC Research Bulletin 360)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
UK Cities in Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 357)
Global Media Cities in Transnational Media Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 358)

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for June 2010 and July 2010

New research project added: TIGER - Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions (ESPON)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 326 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 356 posted: The Causal Relationship between Employment and Business Networks in US Cities

Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 267, 316 and 317 added.
World City Research page updated.

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Spatial Transformations of Cities: Global City-Region? Mega-City Region?
(GaWC Research Bulletin 353)
Cities and Sustainability: Reflections on a Decade of World Development
(GaWC Research Bulletin 354)
Building the World Trade Routes of States in C21st Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 355)

GaWC Research Bulletin 352 posted: Flow-Place: Reflections on Cities, Commutation and Urban Production Processes
Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for May 2010

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Advanced Producer Service Centres in the World Economy
(GaWC Research Bulletin 349)
Urban and Regional Economic Development Planning in the Age of Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 350)
Competition and Cooperation Between Cities in Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 351)

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Need for Archinomics
(GaWC Research Bulletin 346)
Gulfworld: Corporate Profiles and Networks of Gulf Cities
(GaWC Research Bulletin 347)
The Geography of Global Corporate Networks: The Poor, the Rich and the Happy Few
(GaWC Research Bulletin 348)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletins 295 and 326 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 345 posted: Global Capital Control and City Hierarchies: An Attempt to Reposition Vienna in a World City Network
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 320 added.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 312 added.
World City Research page updated.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 316 added.
Data Set 25 posted: Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System: Urban Demographic Changes

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for April 2010
GaWC Research Bulletin 344 posted: Form Follows Function? Linking Morphological and Functional Polycentricity
Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 310 and 331 added.
New research project added: The Spanish Urban System in Globalization

GaWC Research Bulletin 343 posted: World Cities of Sex

Two new research projects added:
Global Buzz - Measuring Short-Term Changes Among Cities in Globalization
Benchmarking Dublin

GaWC Research Bulletin 342 posted: The Location and Global Network Structure of Maritime Advanced Producer Services
GaWC Media Coverage updated.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Role of Locational Similarity in Development Inequalities Among Cities of the European Union
(GaWC Research Bulletin 340)
From Connectivity to Metropolis Power: Measuring National City Networks with METROX Methodology - The Case Of Poland
(GaWC Research Bulletin 341)

GaWC Research Bulletin 339 posted: Berlin 20 Years Later - Defining or Redefining its Functional Profile? With Some Implications for Warsaw

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 300 added.
The World According to GaWC: Revised city classification for 2008 posted.

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for March 2010

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for February 2010

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 295 added.
GaWC Media Coverage updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 338 posted: The Privileged World City: Private Banking, Wealth Management and the Bespoke Servicing of the Global Super-Rich

GaWC Research Bulletin 337 posted: Sectoral Background of Urban-Rural Economic Development Inequalities in Visegrad Countries

GaWC Research Bulletin 336 posted: Global City Formation and the Transnationalization of Urban Spaces: Conceptual Considerations and Empirical Findings
Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for January 2010

GaWC Research Bulletin 335 posted: Contemporary Mappa Mundi: American Exceptionalism in the World City Network

New book published: International Business Travel in the Global Economy

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
World City Networks: Measurement, Social Organization, Global Governance, and Structural Change
(GaWC Research Bulletin 333)
Inflexiones Urbanas y Ciudades Globales
(GaWC Research Bulletin 334)

GaWC Research Bulletin 332 posted: Thesis on Labour Imperialism: How Communist China Used Capitalist Globalization to Create the Last Great Modern Imperialism

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 320 added.

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for December 2009
GaWC Research Bulletin 331 posted: The Changing Geography of Globalized Service Provision, 2000-2008
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 300 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 330 posted: Spatial Structure and Productivity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 269 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
London - The Pre-eminent Global City
(GaWC Research Bulletin 328)
Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of For-profit Educational Service Firms
(GaWC Research Bulletin 329)
GaWC Media Coverage updated.

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for November 2009

GaWC Research Bulletin 327 posted: Green Global City: The Power-Geometry of Sydney's Environmental Governance
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 282 added.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 261 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 326 posted: Life After Regions: The Evolution of City-Regionalism in England

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Megacities in the Geography of Global Economic Governance
(GaWC Research Bulletin 323)
Global City-Formation und die Rolle der Immobilienwirtschaft in der Transnationalisierung der Stadt: Das Beispiel Mexico City
(GaWC Research Bulletin 324)
Global Cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance
(GaWC Research Bulletin 325)

GaWC Research Bulletin 322 posted: Capitalism and the City

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 310 added.

Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for October 2009

Four new research projects added:
Conceptualising the Contemporary 'Professions': Interdisciplinary Debates (ESRC)
Scoping the Private Wealth Management of the High Net Worth Market in the UK's Financial Services Industry (Financial Services Research Forum)
The Wholesale-Retail Finance Interface (Financial Services Research Forum)
The Relationalities of Sydney's Financial District and the Global Financial Crisis (University of Western Sydney)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 310 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 321 posted: Knowledge Networks of 'Buzz' in London's Advertising Industry: A Social Network Analysis Approach

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Networks of Connectivity, Territorial Fragmentation, Uneven Development: The New Politics of City Regionalism
(GaWC Research Bulletin 319)
Goodbye Reykjavik: International Financial Centres and the Global Financial Crisis
(GaWC Research Bulletin 320)

New research project added: International Financial Centres and the Global Financial Crisis
GaWC Research Network page updated.
GaWC Research Bulletin 318 posted: Globalisation and Special Events: The Relevance of the Belgian Participation in World Exhibitions with Case Study Expo Zaragoza 2008 (Spain)

Call for Papers: Geographies of Web Information, AAG 2010

New GaWC measure Global Buzz - The GaWC Monthly Monitor published for September 2009

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 281 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 317 posted: The World According to iTunes: Creative Project Ecologies and the Global Urban Networks of Digital Music Production

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 288 added.

Call for Papers: German Cities in the World City Network, AAG 2010

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 221 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 316 posted: Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System: An Initial Inventory Derived from Urban Demographic Changes

GaWC Research Bulletin 315 posted: Santa Fe: A 'Global Enclave' in Mexico City

GaWC Media Coverage updated.

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Local Network Research of the Yangtze River Delta Based on Economic News
(GaWC Research Bulletin 312)
Global Cities in Competition? A Qualitative Analysis of Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong as Financial Centres
(GaWC Research Bulletin 313)
Marketisation through Contestation: Reconfiguring China's Financial Markets through Knowledge Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 314)

World City Research page updated.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 271 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 311 posted: Urban Economics in thrall to Christaller: A Misguided Search for City Hierarchies in External Urban Relations
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 224 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Setting 'Other' Standards: On the Role, Power and Spatialities of Interlocking Shari'a Boards in Islamic Financial Services
(GaWC Research Bulletin 309)
Pathways of Growth and Decline: Connectivity Changes in the World City Network, 2000-2008
(GaWC Research Bulletin 310)

GaWC Research Bulletin 308 posted: Major Cities in the Information World: Monitoring Cyberspace in Real-Time
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 227 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 307 posted: PAR-LON - Doing Business in Knowledge-Based Services in Paris and London: A Tale of One City?

GaWC Research Bulletin 306 posted: Not So Mobile 'Creative Class': A European Perspective

GaWC Research Bulletin 305 posted: Local Governments as Foreign Policy Actors and Global Cities Network-Makers: The Cases of Barcelona and Porto Alegre
GaWC Twitter news embedded in homepage
New page Books by GaWC Members

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 243 added.
The World According to GaWC: Revised city classification for 2008 posted.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Outsourcing and Offshoring in Business Services - New Dynamics, New Territorial Opportunities?
(GaWC Research Bulletin 303)
An Appraisal of the Determinants of Connectivity Change in the World City Network
(GaWC Research Bulletin 304)

The World According to GaWC: Revised city classification for 2008 posted.

New features on the GaWC website:
GaWC Updates (RSS feed)
GaWC on Twitter
World City News
Clustrmaps visitor location map

GaWC Media Coverage updated.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 268 added.

GaWC Funder Index added to GaWC Research Projects.

Call for Papers: Creative Industries and Creative Communities, IESR, November 2009

GaWC Research Bulletin 302 posted: Polarization, Spread and Upgrading of Urban Functions: From a Dominating 'First City' to a 'Network of Cities' Structure

Two new research projects added:
Benchmarking the World City Network: City Connectivities on the Eve of the Current Financial Crisis (ESRC)
The Pakistani 'Ex-pat' Community in Abu Dhabi: Their Business Networks and Strategies (University of Plymouth)

GaWC Research Bulletin 301 posted: Localizing the Global City through the “Invisible College” – A (Political) Research Note

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Regulation of Design in Global Architecture Firms: Putting Buildings in their Place
(GaWC Research Bulletin 299)
Measuring the World City Network: New Developments and Results
(GaWC Research Bulletin 300)
New research project added: Leveraging Sustainability: Transnational Networks and Communities of Knowledge in the Architecture Industry

GaWC Media Coverage updated.

The World According to GaWC: city classifications for 2000, 2004 and 2008

New research project added: New Ways of Thinking about Abu Dhabi as an Emerging Global City (ADCED)
GaWC Research Bulletin 298 posted: Integrating World Cities into Production Networks: The Case of Port Cities

GaWC Research Bulletin 297 posted: Financial Geographies and Emerging Markets in Europe
GaWC Media Coverage updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 296 posted: Testing the 'Super-Region'

GaWC Research Bulletin 295 posted: Centrality and Structure within Contemporary Worldwide Corporate Networks
GaWC Media Coverage updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 294 posted: The Relative Importance of Randstad Cities within Comparative Worldwide Corporate Networks

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Globalisation of Commercial Theme Parks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 292)
Consequences of Globalisation for the Belgian Steel Industry
(GaWC Research Bulletin 293)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 283 added.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 84 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
The Metropolisation of the FSU: Temptative Measurement via the Method of Hyperlinks Notoriety
(GaWC Research Bulletin 290)
The Spatial Distribution of Internet Backbone Networks in Europe: A Metropolitan Knowledge Economy Perspective
(GaWC Research Bulletin 291)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 233 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Urban Studies without ‘Scale’: Localizing the Global through Singapore
(GaWC Research Bulletin 288)
The Way We Were: Command and Control Centres in the Global Space-Economy on the Eve of the 2008 Geoeconomic Transition
(GaWC Research Bulletin 289)
GaWC Media Coverage updated.

Three new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
National Competitiveness as a Determinant of the Geography of Global Corporate Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 285)
Looking for the 'Core' in Knowledge Globalization: The Need for a New Research Agenda
(GaWC Research Bulletin 286)
Gateways and Corridors in Globalization: Changing European Global City Roles and Functions
(GaWC Research Bulletin 287)
GaWC Practitioner Brief 6 posted: Comment on Centre for Cities Report 'UK Cities in the Global Economy'

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 267 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 284 posted: History and Geography: Braudel's 'extreme longue dureé' as Generics?

GaWC Research Bulletin 283 posted: Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the City
Call for Papers: Practising the Internationalization of Higher Education, AAG 2009
Call for Papers: New Approaches for Measuring the Geography of Internet Traffic, AAG 2009

GaWC Research Bulletin 282 posted: Searching for the Mecca of Finance: Islamic Financial Services and the World City Network

GaWC Research Bulletin 281 posted: The Space of What Flows? Rethinking Connections and Connectivity in City Networks

Metropolis Congress 2008 Sydney: Connecting Cities Research Publications available

Call for Papers: World Cities and Global Production Networks, AAG 2009

GaWC Research Bulletin 280 posted: Servicing British Expatriate ‘Talent’ in Singapore: Exploring Ordinary Transnationalism and the Role of the ‘Expatriate’ Club

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
City-States and the Spatial In-between
(GaWC Research Bulletin 278)
Indiscipline
(GaWC Research Bulletin 279)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 239 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 277 posted: Emerging Cities on the Arabian Peninsula: Urban Space in the Knowledge Economy Context

GaWC Research Bulletin 276 posted: The Study of Cities: Historical and Structural Approaches

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Managing the Transnational Law Firm: A Relational Analysis of Professional Systems, Embedded Actors and Time-Space Sensitive Governance
(GaWC Research Bulletin 274)
Negotiating Cultures of Work in Transnational Law Firms: The Role of Cultural Entrepreneurship
(GaWC Research Bulletin 275)

GaWC Research Bulletin 273 posted: Measuring Urban Competition on the Basis of Flows between Cities: Some Evidence from the World City Network

GaWC Research Bulletin 272 posted: The External Relations of Cities in the Low Countries: A Geographical Appreciation of Historical Research on Urban Networks

GaWC Research Bulletin 271 posted: "Brain Circulation" and Transnational Knowledge Networks: Studying Long-term Effects of Academic Mobility to Germany, 1954-2000

Four new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
From Central Places to Network Bases: The Emergence of a New Urban Hierarchy, 1900-2000
(GaWC Research Bulletin 267)
Polycentric Urban Configurations and Urban Network Development in the Greater South East UK 1981-2001
(GaWC Research Bulletin 268)
Intra-firm and Extra-firm Linkages of the Knowledge Economy – The Case of the Mega-City Region of Munich
(GaWC Research Bulletin 269)
Powerful City Networks: More than Connections, Less than Domination and Control
(GaWC Research Bulletin 270)

Four new research projects added:
Measuring the US Space Economy under Conditions of Contemporary Globalization
Documentation for Metropolis Congress, Sydney 2008
Absorptive Capacity as Knowledge Access: The Case of UK Cities
Contribution to Leadership Forum on Latin American Cities

GaWC Research Bulletin 266 posted: World Maritime Cities: From Which Cities Do Maritime Decision-Makers Operate?

GaWC Research Bulletin 265 posted: Cities as Worlds, Worlds as Cities: Commentaries on 'World City' by Doreen Massey

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
World Cities in Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 263)
Even Important Connections Are Not Always Meaningful: The Use of a Polarization Measure in a Typology of European Cities in Air Transport Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 264)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 200 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 262 posted: The Expatriate Real Estate Complex: Creative Destruction and the Production of Luxury in Post-Socialist Prague

GaWC Research Bulletin 261 posted: External Urban Relational Process: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place Theory

Four new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Institutions, Location, and Networks of Multinational Enterprises in China: A Case Study of Hangzhou
(GaWC Research Bulletin 257)
Madrid in the World City System: An Approach through Foreign Firms in Advanced Business Services
(GaWC Research Bulletin 258)
Three Rivals - Three Paths
(GaWC Research Bulletin 259)
The Changing Value Chain of the Swiss Knowledge Economy – Spatial Impact of Intra-firm and Inter-firm Networks within the Emerging Mega-City Region of Northern Switzerland
(GaWC Research Bulletin 260)

GaWC Research Bulletin 256 posted: Global Law Firms: Globalization and Organizational Spaces of Cross-Border Legal Work

GaWC Research Bulletin 255 posted: Spatial Planning and City Networks in Economic Development: A Friendly Critique of the Polish National Development Strategy 2007-2015

Multiple GaWCs posted - a brief introduction to GaWC.
Two new research project added:
Cities Globalization Index (a collaborative project between CASS and GaWC)
Cities and Capital Investments in English Cathedrals and Major Churches, 1050-1450
Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Geographies of International Business Travel in the Professional Service Economy
(GaWC Research Bulletin 252)
Global Networks Before Globalisation: Imperial Airways and the Development of Long-Haul Air Routes
(GaWC Research Bulletin 253)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Polycentric Mega-City Regions: Exploratory Research from Western Europe
(GaWC Research Bulletin 250)
Air Space: Towards a Social and Cultural Geography of Global Air Travel
(GaWC Research Bulletin 251)
Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 202 and 226 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 248 posted: Metropolitan Functions as a Research Question: Definitions and Identifications in the ESPON and Alternative Approaches

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Cultural Economies of Internationalisation: Exploring the Role of ‘Iconic Individuals’ and ‘Brand Leaders’ in Global Headhunting Firms
(GaWC Research Bulletin 246)
The Fickle ‘War for Talent’: Unpacking the Gatekeeper Role of Executive Search Firms in Elite Labour Markets
(GaWC Research Bulletin 247)

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 222 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 245 posted: Towards Network Sustainability: Between Corporate Network Analysis and Development Indicators

GaWC Research Bulletin 244 posted: Summing Small Cities Does Not Make a Large City: Polycentric Urban Regions and the Provision of Cultural, Leisure and Sports Amenities

Four new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Trzej rywale - trzy drogi
(GaWC Research Bulletin 240)
Rozwijając materialistyczne tezy teorii sieciowej Taylora: Założenia i postulaty do Nuklearnej Teorii Metropolii
(GaWC Research Bulletin 241)
Pushing the Taylor Materialist Theses Forward: Concepts for the Nuclear Theory of Metropolis
(GaWC Research Bulletin 242)
Economic Networks and Urban Complementarities: The Spatial and Functional Integration of Randstad Holland
(GaWC Research Bulletin 243)

Four new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: Towards a World-Systems’ Integration
(GaWC Research Bulletin 236)
Cities in Transitions and Transformations: Exploring a Jacobsean Approach to Macro-Social Change
(GaWC Research Bulletin 237)
Cities, World Cities, Networks and Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 238)
World City Network and Planet of Slums: Access and Exclusion in Economic Globalization
(GaWC Research Bulletin 239)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 213 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 235 posted: Globalisation in Hotel Chains
Call for Papers: Global Knowledge Nodes and Networks in Higher Education and Research, AAG 2008

GaWC Research Bulletin 234 posted: Academic Travel from Cambridge University and the Formation of Centres of Knowledge, 1885-1954

Six new research projects added:
POLYNET UK: Multi-Nodal City-Regions in the UK
Global Milan and its Gateways (Globus et Locus)
Global Hearts of Commerce (Mastercard)
Megaregions: America 2050 (Regional Plan Association and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
Financial Services in Leading Latin American Cities (Mastercard)
The Changing Geography of Global Law Firms (Indiana University School of Law and American Bar Foundation)
Call for Papers World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains, AAG 2008, posted.

GaWC Research Bulletin 233 posted: A Geohistorical Study of the Rise of Modern Science: Career Paths of Leading Scientists in Urban Networks, 1500-1900
Digital object identifier (doi) links added to all GaWC Research Bulletins published in scholarly journals

GaWC Research Bulletin 232 posted: Debate: Globalizing the Geohistory of City/State Relations / City-States and Globalization

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 220 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 231 posted: The Production Sites of Multilateral Treaties: Political Center-Formation and the World-System (1600-2000)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 196 added.

GaWC Research Bulletin 230 posted: The Duality of World Cities and Firms: Comparing Networks, Hierarchies, and Inequalities in the Global Economy

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Revisiting the ‘Informational City’: Space of Flows, Polycentricity and Knowledge-intensive Business Services in an Emerging Global City
(GaWC Research Bulletin 228)
Cities and States: An Elemental Reinterpretation of their Origins and Relations
(GaWC Research Bulletin 229)

Call for Papers posted: RSA Conference Transport, Mobility and Regional Development (London, November 2007)
GaWC Study Group page updated.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Connecting Rhine-Main: The Production of Multi-Scalar Polycentricities through Knowledge-Intensive Business Services
(GaWC Research Bulletin 226)
The UK Space Economy as Practised by Advanced Producer Service Firms: Identifying Two Distinctive Polycentric City-Regional Processes in Contemporary Britain
(GaWC Research Bulletin 227)

GaWC Research Bulletin 225 posted: The Urban Network Transformation: Planning City-Regions in the New Globalisation Wave
Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 200 and 214 added.

Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 219 added.

Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 151, 173, 192, and 197 added.
GaWC Media Coverage and Links pages updated.

Revised versions of GaWC Research Bulletins 180 and 187 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
A New Theoretical Basis for Global-City Research: From Structures and Networks to Multiplicities and Events
(GaWC Research Bulletin 221)
Global Music City: London's Record Industry Under Contemporary Globalisation
(GaWC Research Bulletin 222)
Revised version of GaWC Research Bulletin 137 added.

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Analysing the Changing Landscape of European Financial Centres: The Role of Financial Products and the Case of Amsterdam
(GaWC Research Bulletin 217)
City of London – Global Village: Understanding the Square Mile in a Post-Industrial World Economy
(GaWC Research Bulletin 218)
GaWC Author Index added to GaWC Research Bulletins.

Four new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Constructing New Regional Geographies: Territories, Networks and Relational Regions
(GaWC Research Bulletin 213)
Space and Sustainability: An Exploratory Essay on the Production of Social Spaces through City-Work
(GaWC Research Bulletin 214)
Advertising and Cities: A Relational Geography of Globalization in the Early Twenty First Century
(GaWC Research Bulletin 215)
Resurgent European Cities?
(GaWC Research Bulletin 216)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
From North-South to Global South: A Geohistorical Investigation Using Airline Routes and Travel, 1970-2005
(GaWC Research Bulletin 209)
Global Research Centres: Dynamics 1996-2004, Networks 2002-2004. An Analysis Based on Bibliometric Indicators
(GaWC Research Bulletin 210)

Three Calls for Papers for the 2007 Annual Meeting of American Geographers posted:
Globalization, City-Regions and Polycentricity
Mobility, Business Travel, and the Airline Industry in the Network Society
Economic Geographies of the Corporate Knowledge Economy
Five new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing within the World City Network: Positions, Trends and Prospects
(GaWC Research Bulletin 204)
Sustainability within a World City Network
(GaWC Research Bulletin 205)
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006): An Appreciation
(GaWC Research Bulletin 206)
A World City, Psychological Rewards and the Creative Agencies
(GaWC Research Bulletin 207)
Between Accumulation and Concentration of Capital: Toward a Framework for Comparing Long-Term Trajectories of Urban Systems
(GaWC Research Bulletin 208)

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Organization of the Polycentric Metropolis: Corporate Structures and Networks
(GaWC Research Bulletin 199)
Mundialização de cidades brasileiras: um exemplo de expansão da metrópole através do sistema bancário
(GaWC Research Bulletin 200)
Four new research projects added:
- Metrics, Models and Toolkits for Sustainable Urban Development (EPSRC)
- Transnational Relations of Brazilian Cities: A Contribution to Urban Development Policies (CNPq/Laget)
- The Global, the ‘Glocal' and the Local – Local Contexts of Cities in Developing Countries and ‘Glocal' Impacts of Global Production (NTNU)
- Trajectories of Scientific Learning in Modern Europe

Notes on the GaWC Annual Lecture 2006 posted: Power and World Cities

Two new GaWC Research Bulletins posted:
Poststructuralism, Power and the Global City
(GaWC Research Bulletin 170)
A Lineage for Contemporary Inter-City Studies
(GaWC Research Bulletin 171)
Teaching module World City Network updated.

GaWC Research Bulletin 166 posted: Measurement of Non-Global Networks: Urban Nodes and Regional Groupings in the Russian Banking Sector
New research project added: Air Travel Transport as an Example of the Unfolding of the Globalization Process, 1970-2005
Data Set 12 posted: Global Network Service Connectivities for 315 Cities in 2000

U.S. Cities in the 'World City Network': research report for The Brookings Institution available online (GaWC Project 32)

POLYNET project reports actions 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 & 2.2 available online (GaWC Project 33)

GaWC Annual Lecture 2005 posted: London: Europe's New York

New research project added: From Megalopolis to Megapolitan: Creating a New Framework for Planning Trans-Metropolitan Development in the US
Addition to Visualisation section: New Atlases Developing the Visualisation of World City Networks

Francqui Colloquium Inter-City Relations within Contemporary Globalization announced.
GaWC Research Bulletin 151 posted: Spatialities of Globalization: Towards an Integration of Research on World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains
World City Research and GaWC Study Group pages updated.