Shaping a global comparative imagination? Assessing the role of city rankings in the “global city” discourse

Area ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Acuto ◽  
Daniel Pejic
Keyword(s):  
Global City ◽  
City Rankings

scholarly journals Spatial hierarchy and emerging typologies inside world city network

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (30) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Ilya Chubarov
Keyword(s):  
Think Tanks ◽  
Global City ◽  
World City ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
New Approach ◽  
World City Network ◽  
City Network ◽  
Spatial Hierarchy ◽  
City Rankings

Abstract The first part of the paper provides a new approach to measuring a spatial structure of world city network (WCN). Based upon the results of media- popular ‘global city rankings’ produced by several international think tanks, our calculation allowed to reveal global urban hierarchy and identify several subnetworks inside of world cities. The second part of the paper devotes to recent discussions on nature of globalization and urban macrosystems, bearing in mind ranking results. It is shown that a typological approach can provide more insights to a role of city as part of WCN from functional and relationships prospective.

Thailand’s “77th Province”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Padoongpatt
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Global City ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Culinary Tourism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Center

Chapter 5 explores "Thai Town" in East Hollywood (established in 1999) to highlight the role of culinary tourism in Thai American struggles for a right to the global city. It charts the history of Thai Town's development as a product of Thai community leaders, specifically the Thai Community Development Center, and Los Angeles city officials’ attempt to parlay Thai cuisine's popularity into political visibility, civic engagement, social justice activism, and urban redevelopment. While playing on cuisine-driven multiculturalism allowed Thais to use food, specifically culinary tourism, to root identity and community in a physical place, the chapter argues that heritage commodification in Thai Town also constricted a right to the global city, because it was geared toward a neoliberal vision of multiculturalism that sought to highlight the position of Los Angeles in the global capitalist economy. The chapter also includes a discussion of the 1995 El Monte slave-labor case.

On the global city map, but not in command? Probing Manila’s position in the world city network

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 2897-2915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Kleibert
Keyword(s):  
Global City ◽  
World City ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Producer Service ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
City Network ◽  
Advanced Producer Service ◽  
And Control ◽  
City Rankings

The changing geography of service employment and the relocation of back-office service tasks to developing economies present a challenge to contemporary world city network research and methodology, as cost-driven offshoring may wrongly suggest a city’s increased importance in global city rankings. In particular, financial service firms, but also management consultancies, law firms, and other advanced producer service firms have offshored tasks abroad. These firms’ offices are attributed a vital role in the world city network literature and form the basis for world city rankings using the interlocking network model. Based on empirical research on advanced producer service firms in Metro Manila, the Philippines, this paper argues that the existence of linkages and the appearance ‘on the map’ of dominant economic flows does not automatically lead to an increased command and control position of Manila. Instead, the attraction of lower-end services leads to Manila’s dependent articulation into global service production networks. The findings challenge the key assumptions about ‘command functions’ and ‘strategic role’ of global cities that underpin the global city rankings. The paper critiques current conceptualisations of command and control in global urban network theory in the light of changing intra-firm divisions of labour in advanced producer service firms, and stresses the importance of qualitative research.

The making of Mumbai as a global city: investigating the role of the offshore services sector

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Lambregts ◽  
Jana Kleibert ◽  
Niels Beerepoot
Keyword(s):  
Global City ◽  
Services Sector

scholarly journals Nordic Ties and British Lives? Migrant Capital and the Case of Nordic Migrants Living in London

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saara Koikkalainen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Global City ◽  
British Society ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

As a hub of finance, art, design and science, the city of London has long attracted migrants interested in study and career opportunities or simply excited about living in an open, global city. Over the last few decades, it has also been a key migration destination for Europeans originating from the Nordic countries. Based on survey data gathered through an online questionnaire, this article focuses on Nordic migrants currently living in London. Since the June 2016 referendum, the Brexit process has forced these voluntary and rather privileged migrants to question their inclusion in British society. This article discusses the role of migrant capital, i.e., the skills and resources created as a result of migration, at a time of uncertainty brought on by Brexit. It examines how these migrants see their position within the social hierarchy of the city and its job market, as well as within the local and transnational networks they maintain to their countries of origin. Their Nordic background is valuable thanks to the cultural capital embodied in their habitus as well as the social capital available via the Nordic networks in UK and transnationally.

scholarly journals The Secrets and Future of Global Cities A Book Review and Reflections on “Global City Makers”, Economic Actors and Practices in the World City Network – by Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson, Elgar 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Mohamed Buheji ◽  
Dunya Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Global City ◽  
World City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
City Network ◽  
Relational Economic Geography

The rapid increase of global cities in the 1990s would count now to reach more than 100 cities. Many of these global cities are trying to influence the global economy by differentiated or similar advanced instruments. The capacities and the details of these instruments have not been scientifically investigated in detail, despite the delicate role of the global cities makers and their capacity to influence the socio-economies as powerful economic actors. These intermediary economic actors are very influential in the making and un-making global cities. The “Global City Makers” economic actors and practices in the world city network by Hoyler et. al. (2018) is been reviewed from this perspective mainly. As this book help to identify the influence of certain economic planning on the socio-economic fate of millions of peoples today. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research.

scholarly journals A copy is (not a simple) copy: Role of urban landmarks in branding Seoul as a global city

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieheerah Yun
Keyword(s):  
Global City
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