Dataset 15

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.

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Global practice matrix of 21 architectural firms across 104 citiesXLS

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.