An Appraisal of Asia-Pacific Cities as Control and Command Centres Embedded in World City Network

Since the globalization trend is proliferating at a staggering rate, world cities have emerged as the most dominant vanguard incorporated into global economy. Control and command function is one of the robust integral parts of world city formation, which is closely associated with the corporate headquarter status of some dominant multinational companies. Previous research works on this topic tend to concentrate on the Western Europe and North American arenas neglecting the Asia-Pacific region. Hence, the objective of this paper is to explore control and command functions of Asia-Pacific cities with reference to headquarters’ locations of multinational companies. The methodology will utilize the Forbes global 2000 dataset from the seminal study of GaWC research group, and apply the control and command center model and the interlocking city network model to discover the control and command index, as well as network connectivity of Asia-Pacific cities. Based upon the empirical study of this research, we could identify the hierarchical structure and spatial structure of Asia-Pacific world cities to emerge as some control and command centers embedded in world city network.

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World Cities of Scientific Knowledge: Systems, Networks and Potential Dynamics. An Analysis Based on Bibliometric Indicators

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098010372683 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 47 (9) ◽

pp. 1879-1897 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Christian Wichmann Matthiessen ◽

Annette Winkel Schwarz ◽

Søren Find

Keyword(s):

Western Europe ◽

Research Output ◽

World City ◽

Knowledge Network ◽

World Cities ◽

World City Network ◽

The World ◽

City Network ◽

Upper Level ◽

Number Of Citations

This paper is based on identification of the pattern of the upper level of the world city network of knowledge as published in a series of earlier papers. It is our aim to update the findings and relate to the general world city discussion. The structure of the world cities of knowledge network has changed over the past decade in favour of south-east Asian and south European cities and in disfavour of the traditional centres of North America and north-western Europe. The analysis is based on bibliometric data on the world’s 100 largest cities measured in terms of research output. The level of co-authorship between researchers in different cities is an indicator of links and respect, and the number of citations of papers produced by researchers located in each city is an indicator of respect. Finally, one research discipline is selected for an experiment in forecasting future hot spots of research.

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Applying a World-City Network Approach to Globalizing Higher Education: Conceptualization, Data Collection and the Lists of World Cities

Higher Education Policy ◽

10.1057/hep.2014.31 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 107-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alice S.Y. Chow ◽

Becky P.Y. Loo

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Data Collection ◽

World City ◽

Network Approach ◽

World Cities ◽

World City Network ◽

City Network

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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

Journal of Social Science Studies ◽

10.5296/jsss.v6i1.14142 ◽

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.

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Measuring the World City Network

ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 15-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Peter Taylor

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Network Connectivity ◽

World City ◽

Service Firms ◽

Producer Service ◽

Routine Work ◽

Basic Measurement ◽

World City Network ◽

The World ◽

City Network

Measuring the world city network is achieved by careful specification of a network model plus customised data collection to operationalize the model. The resulting interlocking network is described as advanced producer service firms in the role of city network-makers through their routine work across multiple offices. The basic measurement derived is the network connectivity of a city; this describes how well that city is integrated into the world city network. Selected results from the latest data collection (2008 – 175 firms, 526 cities) are presented with leading (‘alpha’) cities divided into connectivity strata. It is shown that compared to previous analyses in 2000 and 2004, the upper echelons of the world city network are becoming more and more integrated.

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