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Cities are seen as essentially ‘good’: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnreiter argues that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the ‘good’ innovations – agglomeration economies, network externalities and a massive built environment – also provides fertile ground for the development of […]
GaWC is pleased to endorse the Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials, published by a working group of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). You can learn more about these recommendations, and become an endorser too, at https://www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing.
GaWC is currently active on three social media platforms: Bluesky, LinkedIn and X. Our Bluesky account has seen significant growth recently: check out our Starter Pack on Global Urban Research and connect with us!
A selection of recent papers by GaWC researchers, published during the transition to our new website: Neal, Z.P., Derudder, B. and van Meeteren, M. (2024) ‘When is a matrix a geographical network?’, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114 (8), 1631-1638. Geographical networks are spatial networks in which the nodes have a socially constructed […]
We have today released our latest iteration of The World According to GaWC, assessing and classifying 785 cities worldwide via the activities of 175 leading advanced producer services firms:
Welcome to our redesigned website, now available at gawc.lboro.ac.uk. Since its inception in 1999, the GaWC website has been a pioneering global platform for research into inter-city relations. We have given the site a complete makeover, added new data and visualisations, and made much of its content more accessible. More updates to follow soon, including […]