Measurement and Interpretation of Connectivity of Chinese Cities in World City Network, 2010

Ben DERUDDER; Peter J TAYLOR; Michael HOYLER; NI Pengfei; LIU Xingjian; ZHAO Miaoxi; SHEN Wei; Frank WITLOX

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Ben DERUDDER, Peter J TAYLOR, Michael HOYLER, NI Pengfei, LIU Xingjian, ZHAO Miaoxi, SHEN Wei, Frank WITLOX. Measurement and Interpretation of Connectivity of Chinese Cities in World City Network, 2010[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2013, 23(3): 261-273. doi: 10.1007/s11769-013-0604-y

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Ben DERUDDER, Peter J TAYLOR, Michael HOYLER, NI Pengfei, LIU Xingjian, ZHAO Miaoxi, SHEN Wei, Frank WITLOX. Measurement and Interpretation of Connectivity of Chinese Cities in World City Network, 2010[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2013, 23(3): 261-273. doi: 10.1007/s11769-013-0604-y

Measurement and Interpretation of Connectivity of Chinese Cities in World City Network, 2010

doi: 10.1007/s11769-013-0604-y

1.
Department of Geography, Ghent University, Gent B9000, Belgium;
2.
School of the Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK;
3.
Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK;
4.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China;
5.
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EN, UK;
6.
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China;
7.
ESSCA School of Management, Angers 49000, France

Funds: Under the auspices of European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (No. PIOF-GA-2010-274027), Key Laboratory of Ecology and Energy-saving of Dense Habitat (Tongji University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

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Corresponding author: Ben DERUDDER. E-mail: ben.derudder@ugent.be
Received Date: 2012-07-22
Rev Recd Date: 2012-12-05
Publish Date: 2013-05-29

Abstract

This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets the position of Chinese cities in the world city network in 2010. Building on a specification of the world city network as a ‘interlocking network' in which business services firms play the crucial role in city network formation, information is gathered about the presence of global service firms in cities. This information is converted into data to provide the ‘service value' of a city for a firm's provision of corporate services in a 526 (cities) × 175 (firms) matrix. These data are then used as the input to the interlocking network model in order to measure cities' connectivity and its predominant geographical orientation. Here we focus on the position of some key Chinese cities in this regard, and discuss and interpret results in the context of the urban dimensions of the ‘opening up' of the Chinese economy.
- world city network,
- advanced producer services,
- Shanghai,
- Hong Kong,
- Beijing

References

[1]	Aharoni Y, Nachum L, 2000. Globalization of Services: Some Implications for Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.
[2]	Bassens D, Derudder B, Witlox F, 2010. Searching for the Mecca of finance: Islamic financial services and the world city network. Area, 42(1): 35-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009. 00894.x
[3]	Brenner N, Keil R, 2006. The Global Cities Reader. London: Routledge.
[4]	Bryson J, Daniels P W, 1998. Service Industries in the Global Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[5]	Castells M, 1996. The Rise of The Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
[6]	Chiu B, Lewis M K, 2006. Reforming China's State-owned En-terprises and Banks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[7]	Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor P J et al., 2012. International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[8]	Derudder B, Taylor P J, Witlox F et al., 2003. Hierarchical ten-dencies and regional patterns in the world city network: A global urban analysis of 234 cities. Regional Studies, 37(9): 875-886. doi: 10.1080/0034340032000143887
[9]	Derudder B, Taylor P J, Ni P et al., 2010. Pathways of change: shifting connectivities in the world city network, 2000-2008. Urban Studies, 47(9): 1861-1877. doi: 10.1177/004209801037 2682
[10]	Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor P J, 2011. Goodbye Reykjavik: international banking centres and the global financial crisis. Area, 43(2): 173?182. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00968.x
[11]	Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor P J et al., 2012. International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[12]	Hall P, Pain K, 2006. The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from mega-city regions in Europe. London: Earthscan.
[13]	Harrington J W, Daniels P W, 2006. Knowledge-based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development. Aldershot: Ashgate.
[14]	Hoyler M, Kloosterman R C, Sokol M, 2008. Polycentric puz-zles-emergingmega-city regions seen through the lens of ad-vanced producer services. Regional Studies, 42(8): 1055-1064. doi: 10.1080/00343400802389377
[15]	Lai K, 2012. Differentiated Markets: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in China's Financial Centre Network. Urban Studies, 49(6): 1275-1296. doi: 10.1177/0042098011408143
[16]	Liu X, Derudder B, 2012. Two-mode networks and the interlock-ing world city network model: A reply to Neal. Geographical Analysis, 44: 171-173. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2012.00844.x
[17]	Loras S, 2011. Financial services cover story: Australian banks in China. Australia China Connections. Available at: http://www.chinaconnections.com.au/en/magazine/back-issues/77-augsept-2011/1037-financial-services-cover-story-australian-banks-in-china
[18]	Ma L J C, 2002. Urban transformation in China, 1949-2000: A review and research agenda. Environment and Planning A, 34(9): 1545-1569. doi: 10.1068/a34192
[19]	Ni P, 2012. The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2011. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[20]	Pauly L W, 2011. Hong Kong's financial center in a regional and global context. Hong Kong Journal, 2011-7-22. Available at: http://www.hkjournal.org/archive/2011_fall/2.htm
[21]	Pike A, Pollard J, 2010. Economic Geographies of Financialization. Economic Geography, 86(1): 29-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01057.x
[22]	Sassen S, 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Prin-ceton. NJ: Princeton University Press.
[23]	Sassen S, 1994. Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
[24]	Scott A J, 2001. Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[25]	Taylor P J, 2001. Specification of the world city network. Geo-graphical Analysis, 33(2): 181-194. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4632. 2001.tb00443.x
[26]	Taylor P J, 2004. World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis. London: Routledge.
[27]	Taylor P J, Catalano G, Walker D R F, 2002a. Measurement of the world city network, Urban Studies, 39(13): 2367-2376. doi: 10.1080/00420980220080011
[28]	Taylor P J, Catalano G, Walker D R F, 2002b. Exploratory analysis of the world city network. Urban Studies, 39(13): 2377-2394. doi: 10.1080/0042098022000027013
[29]	Taylor P J, Walker D R F, Catalano G, Hoyler M, 2002c. Diversity and power in the world city network. Cities, 19(4): 231-241. doi: 10.1016/S0264-2751(02)00020-3
[30]	Taylor P J, Derudder, B, 2004. Porous Europe: European cities in global urban arenas. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 95(5): 527-538. doi: 10.1111/j.0040-747X.2004. 00337.x
[31]	Taylor P J, Derudder B, Saey P et al., 2007. Cities in Globalization: Practices, Policies and Theories. London: Routledge.
[32]	Taylor P J, Ni P, Derudder B et al., 2011. Global Urban Analysis: A Survey of Cities in Globalization. London: Earthscan.
[33]	Taylor P J, Hoyler M, Beaverstock J V et al., 2013a. Global Cities (4 volumes). London: Routledge Major Works
[34]	Taylor P J, Derudder B, Hoyler M et al., 2013b. New Regional Geographies of the World as Practised by Leading Advanced Producer Service Firms in 2010. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012. 00545.x

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Measurement and Interpretation of Connectivity of Chinese Cities in World City Network, 2010

1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Gent B9000, Belgium;

2. School of the Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK;

3. Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK;

4. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China;

5. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EN, UK;

6. South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China;

7. ESSCA School of Management, Angers 49000, France

Corresponding author: Ben DERUDDER. E-mail: ben.derudder@ugent.be

Received Date: 2012-07-22

Rev Recd Date: 2012-12-05

Publish Date: 2013-05-29

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Abstract: This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets the position of Chinese cities in the world city network in 2010. Building on a specification of the world city network as a ‘interlocking network' in which business services firms play the crucial role in city network formation, information is gathered about the presence of global service firms in cities. This information is converted into data to provide the ‘service value' of a city for a firm's provision of corporate services in a 526 (cities) × 175 (firms) matrix. These data are then used as the input to the interlocking network model in order to measure cities' connectivity and its predominant geographical orientation. Here we focus on the position of some key Chinese cities in this regard, and discuss and interpret results in the context of the urban dimensions of the ‘opening up' of the Chinese economy.

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[1]	Aharoni Y, Nachum L, 2000. Globalization of Services: Some Implications for Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.
[2]	Bassens D, Derudder B, Witlox F, 2010. Searching for the Mecca of finance: Islamic financial services and the world city network. Area, 42(1): 35-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009. 00894.x
[3]	Brenner N, Keil R, 2006. The Global Cities Reader. London: Routledge.
[4]	Bryson J, Daniels P W, 1998. Service Industries in the Global Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[5]	Castells M, 1996. The Rise of The Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
[6]	Chiu B, Lewis M K, 2006. Reforming China's State-owned En-terprises and Banks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[7]	Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor P J et al., 2012. International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[8]	Derudder B, Taylor P J, Witlox F et al., 2003. Hierarchical ten-dencies and regional patterns in the world city network: A global urban analysis of 234 cities. Regional Studies, 37(9): 875-886. doi: 10.1080/0034340032000143887
[9]	Derudder B, Taylor P J, Ni P et al., 2010. Pathways of change: shifting connectivities in the world city network, 2000-2008. Urban Studies, 47(9): 1861-1877. doi: 10.1177/004209801037 2682
[10]	Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor P J, 2011. Goodbye Reykjavik: international banking centres and the global financial crisis. Area, 43(2): 173?182. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00968.x
[11]	Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor P J et al., 2012. International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[12]	Hall P, Pain K, 2006. The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from mega-city regions in Europe. London: Earthscan.
[13]	Harrington J W, Daniels P W, 2006. Knowledge-based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development. Aldershot: Ashgate.
[14]	Hoyler M, Kloosterman R C, Sokol M, 2008. Polycentric puz-zles-emergingmega-city regions seen through the lens of ad-vanced producer services. Regional Studies, 42(8): 1055-1064. doi: 10.1080/00343400802389377
[15]	Lai K, 2012. Differentiated Markets: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in China's Financial Centre Network. Urban Studies, 49(6): 1275-1296. doi: 10.1177/0042098011408143
[16]	Liu X, Derudder B, 2012. Two-mode networks and the interlock-ing world city network model: A reply to Neal. Geographical Analysis, 44: 171-173. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2012.00844.x
[17]	Loras S, 2011. Financial services cover story: Australian banks in China. Australia China Connections. Available at: http://www.chinaconnections.com.au/en/magazine/back-issues/77-augsept-2011/1037-financial-services-cover-story-australian-banks-in-china
[18]	Ma L J C, 2002. Urban transformation in China, 1949-2000: A review and research agenda. Environment and Planning A, 34(9): 1545-1569. doi: 10.1068/a34192
[19]	Ni P, 2012. The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2011. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
[20]	Pauly L W, 2011. Hong Kong's financial center in a regional and global context. Hong Kong Journal, 2011-7-22. Available at: http://www.hkjournal.org/archive/2011_fall/2.htm
[21]	Pike A, Pollard J, 2010. Economic Geographies of Financialization. Economic Geography, 86(1): 29-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01057.x
[22]	Sassen S, 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Prin-ceton. NJ: Princeton University Press.
[23]	Sassen S, 1994. Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
[24]	Scott A J, 2001. Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[25]	Taylor P J, 2001. Specification of the world city network. Geo-graphical Analysis, 33(2): 181-194. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4632. 2001.tb00443.x
[26]	Taylor P J, 2004. World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis. London: Routledge.
[27]	Taylor P J, Catalano G, Walker D R F, 2002a. Measurement of the world city network, Urban Studies, 39(13): 2367-2376. doi: 10.1080/00420980220080011
[28]	Taylor P J, Catalano G, Walker D R F, 2002b. Exploratory analysis of the world city network. Urban Studies, 39(13): 2377-2394. doi: 10.1080/0042098022000027013
[29]	Taylor P J, Walker D R F, Catalano G, Hoyler M, 2002c. Diversity and power in the world city network. Cities, 19(4): 231-241. doi: 10.1016/S0264-2751(02)00020-3
[30]	Taylor P J, Derudder, B, 2004. Porous Europe: European cities in global urban arenas. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 95(5): 527-538. doi: 10.1111/j.0040-747X.2004. 00337.x
[31]	Taylor P J, Derudder B, Saey P et al., 2007. Cities in Globalization: Practices, Policies and Theories. London: Routledge.
[32]	Taylor P J, Ni P, Derudder B et al., 2011. Global Urban Analysis: A Survey of Cities in Globalization. London: Earthscan.
[33]	Taylor P J, Hoyler M, Beaverstock J V et al., 2013a. Global Cities (4 volumes). London: Routledge Major Works
[34]	Taylor P J, Derudder B, Hoyler M et al., 2013b. New Regional Geographies of the World as Practised by Leading Advanced Producer Service Firms in 2010. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012. 00545.x

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