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Two new papers analysing labour market integration from a city network perspective: Liu, X., Derudder, B., Wang, B. and Witlox, F. (2025) ‘Interconnected cities, integrated markets: exploring the impact of transport networks on labor market integration in the Yangtze River Delta, China’, Growth and Change, 56 (4), e70068. This paper examines the impact of cities’ […]
GaWC researchers have long shaped agendas on polycentric urban development, from projects including the pioneering ERDF-funded POLYNET to the Regional Studies Association’s Polycentric Urban Regions (PURs) research network. Among the key outputs are a series of journal special issues addressing globalisation, city-regions and polycentricity in North-West Europe, the identification, evolution and performance of PURs, and […]
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 […]