World Cities: Regional Dimensions
Peter J. Taylor, David R.F. Walker and Michael Hoyler
These data describe the distribution of offices for 46 ‘global’ advanced producer service firms over world cities in the three main ‘globalisation arenas’: Europe, Pacific Asia, and North America. Global firms are defined by having offices in at least 15 different cities. World cities/cities showing evidence of world city formation are from the GaWC inventory of world cities (see GaWC Research Bulletin 6). Service values for a firm in a city are given as 3, 2, 1 or 0 as defined in GaWC Dataset 4.
These data are an experimental set of data derived from GaWC Dataset 4 (43 of the firms qualify as global) but with three additional law firms added which do not have London offices. For publications that make use of these data, see The spatial order of European cities under conditions of contemporary globalisation (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 16) and World cities in the Pacific Rim: a new global test of regional coherence (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 21).
| Description | Files |
|---|---|
| European world cities – office distribution of global service firms: This is a 53 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 53 European cities (22 world cities and 31 cities showing evidence of world city formation). | XLS CSV |
| Pacific Rim world cities – office distribution of global service firms: This is a 28 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 28 Pacific Rim cities (17 world cities and 11 cities showing evidence of world city formation). | XLS CSV |
| North American world cities – office distribution of global service firms: This is a 25 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 25 North American world cities (14 world cities and 11 cities showing evidence of world city formation). | XLS CSV |
| Key: Advanced producer service firms (sector, code and firm) |
References
Taylor, P.J. and Hoyler, M. (2000) The spatial order of European cities under conditions of contemporary globalisation, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 91 (2), 176-189.
Taylor, P.J., Doel, M.A., Hoyler, M., Walker, D.R.F. and Beaverstock, J.V. (2000) World cities in the Pacific Rim: a new global test of regional coherence, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21 (3), 233-245.
Taylor, P.J., Walker, D.R.F. and Beaverstock, J.V. (2002) Firms and their global service networks, in Sassen, S. (ed.) Global Networks, Linked Cities, London: Routledge, 93-115.
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, David R.F. Walker and Michael Hoyler and constitute Dataset 8 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network (https://gawc.lboro.ac.uk/) publication of inter-city data.