Formative Visualisations

Loughborough University 1st XV Rugby Pitch and East Park with Towers in the background, featuring in the initial GaWC logo

Innovative visualisation of inter-city relations has been part of the GaWC endeavour from the very beginning. The examples below are some of the formative visualisations in early GaWC research.

Cartogram showing alpha, beta and gamma world cities
A roster of world cities
Schematic map showing regional world cities and their spheres of influence
World cities and territorial states under conditions of contemporary globalization
Schematic map showing world city links to London
World-city network: a new metageography?
Diagram showing inter-city referencing between seven major US cities
Hierarchical tendencies amongst world cities: a global research proposal
Diagram showing the spatial order of European cities
The spatial order of Europe
Figure depicting 9 city components in Venn-like diagrams with sets defined by city loading
World cities: a first multivariate analysis of their service complexes
Cartogram showing high connectivity gateways
Diversity and power in the world city network
Diagram showing Central American connections with the world city network via correspondence banking contacts
Beyond world cities: Central America in a global space of flows
Diagram showing the primary structure of the world city network
Exploratory analysis of the world city network