A roster of world cities

被引:632
作者
Beaverstock, JV
Smith, RG
Taylor, PJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Loughborough, Dept Geog, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England
[2] Univ Leicester, Dept Geog, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
globalization; world cities; advanced producer services;
D O I
10.1016/S0264-2751(99)00042-6
中图分类号
TU98 [区域规划、城乡规划];
学科分类号
0814 ; 082803 ; 0833 ;
摘要
Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no agreed-upon roster covering world cities below the highest level. This paper reports the construction of an inventory of world cities based upon their level of advanced producer services. Global service centres are identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law, Aggregating these results produces a roster of 55 world cities at three levels: 10 Alpha world cities, 10 Beta world cities and 35 Gamma world cities. These are found to be largely geographically concentrated in three "globalization arenas", northern America, western Europe and Pacific Asia. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:445 / 458
页数:14
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