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A new network graph published in the journal Finance and Space, by Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler and Julia Loginova, takes inspiration from GaWC’s ‘world city network’ approach and continues our tradition of innovative visualisations of cities in contemporary globalisation: Wang, Y., Sigler, T. and Loginova, J. (2025) ‘The global city network of firms’, Finance and […]
2023 and 2024 are probably the warmest years humans have ever experienced. We are changing the Earth’s climate in ways that are dangerous for all living beings. Social scientists are responsible for understanding how humans organise their lives. But they have had relatively little to say about climate change. This is even though everything they […]
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 […]