Architectural Firms in World Cities: Global Practice Matrix
Peter J. Taylor, Paul L. Knox and Erin Milfeit
These data constitute the basis of analysis in Toward a geography of the globalization of architecture office networks (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 128), and are also used in Leading world cities: empirical evaluations of urban nodes in multiple networks (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 146).
The data are a subset of GaWC Dataset 13; they include just architectural firms of which there are 21. Because of the sparseness of the matrix, cities are restricted to those with total practice scores of at least 3 (i.e. they must have more than just one typical office). 104 cities qualify.
| Description | Files |
|---|---|
| Global practice matrix of 21 architectural firms across 104 cities | XLS |
References
Knox, P.L. and Taylor, P.J. (2005) Toward a geography of the globalization of architecture office networks, Journal of Architectural Education, 58 (3), 23-32.
Taylor, P.J. (2005) Leading world cities: empirical evaluations of urban nodes in multiple networks, Urban Studies, 42 (9), 1593-1608.
As per our data protocol, the following acknowledgement should accompany any public use of the data:
Acknowledgement: The data were produced by Peter J. Taylor, Paul L. Knox and Erin Milfeit and constitute Dataset 15 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network (https://gawc.lboro.ac.uk/) publication of inter-city data.