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Peter J Taylor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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nylon s pre eminence the permeability of world regions in Contemporary Globalization
Geographical Review, 2021Co-Authors: Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Xingjian LiuAbstract:In this paper we provide a detailed geographical analysis of the role of the New York-London (NYLON) connection in the world city network. We find that its pre-eminence is much greater and much mor...
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Commodity Chains and World Cities - World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: towards a world‐systems' integration
Global Networks, 2010Co-Authors: Ed Brown, Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Christof Parnreiter, Wim Pelupessy, Frank WitloxAbstract:There are two literatures that explicitly describe spaces of flows that constitute Contemporary Globalization: world city network analysis and global commodity chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other’s limitations. This is illustrated through world city process additions to understanding the coffee commodity chain and commodity chain additions to understanding Mexico City and Santiago’s positioning in the world city network. This complementarity is just a first step towards a more complete integration; the conclusion provides necessary next steps towards just such a research agenda.
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World city formation and long-distance communication under conditions of Contemporary Globalization : an empirical investigation of the relationship between air traffic and global service connectivity
2010Co-Authors: Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, Lomme Devriendt, Raf VerbruggenAbstract:This paper investigates the relationship between world city formation – as measured through global connectivities produced by advanced producer service firms – and global air transport flows. Firstly, we examine the obstacles related to the construction of careful measurements of (i) a city’s global airline connectivity, and (ii) its economic importance in the context of a globalized economy, and use this as a starting point to show how recent advances in conceptual and empirical research on global cities have been able to tackle some of these problems. This has allowed social scientists to construct extensive global measurements of the importance of cities in terms of air transport and corporate development. The second section of the paper compares these two sets of measurements through a simple statistical technique (standard least squares regression analysis). Through an examination of the regression residuals, this analysis allows the investigation of differences in importance between a city’s global air linkages and its corporate development. We interpret the results in terms of cities being under-developed and/or over-visited or being over-developed and/or under-visited. The end-result is a systematic analysis of the multifaceted relation between air travel and world city development under conditions of Contemporary Globalization.
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problematizing city state relations towards a geohistorical understanding of Contemporary Globalization
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2007Co-Authors: Peter J TaylorAbstract:This essay explores the contention that to understand Contemporary Globalization it is necessary to problematize city/state relations. Since the relation is unproblematized in modernity – cities are just parts of states – a transhistorical approach is adopted based upon Jacobs’ identification of contrary ‘moral syndromes’, commercial and guardian. The practices guided by these syndromes create different social spaces, spaces of flows and spaces of places respectively. Thus cities are interpreted as constellations of commercial practices, and states as constellations of guardian practices. Salient theories of cities and states are found in Jacobs’ description of cities as complex entities that expand economic life and Scott's description of states’ simplifying social relations in order to better control them. This abstract discussion is concretized through the specificities of modern cities and modern states. Six vignettes of city/state relations are sketched straddling the whole modern temporality. The conclusion rules out the popular ‘city-state’ scenario as a Globalization outcome.
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Problematizing city/state relations: towards a geohistorical understanding of Contemporary Globalization
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2007Co-Authors: Peter J TaylorAbstract:This essay explores the contention that to understand Contemporary Globalization it is necessary to problematize city/state relations. Since the relation is unproblematized in modernity – cities are just parts of states – a transhistorical approach is adopted based upon Jacobs’ identification of contrary ‘moral syndromes’, commercial and guardian. The practices guided by these syndromes create different social spaces, spaces of flows and spaces of places respectively. Thus cities are interpreted as constellations of commercial practices, and states as constellations of guardian practices. Salient theories of cities and states are found in Jacobs’ description of cities as complex entities that expand economic life and Scott's description of states’ simplifying social relations in order to better control them. This abstract discussion is concretized through the specificities of modern cities and modern states. Six vignettes of city/state relations are sketched straddling the whole modern temporality. The conclusion rules out the popular ‘city-state’ scenario as a Globalization outcome.
Frank Witlox - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2010Co-Authors: Céline Rozenblat, Ben Derudder, Frank WitloxAbstract:There are two literatures that explicitly describe the spaces of flows that constitute Contemporary Globalization – World City Network analysis and Global Commodity Chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other's limitations. This is illustrated through world city process additions to understanding the coffee commodity chain and commodity chain additions to understanding Mexico City and Santiago's positioning in the World City Network. This complementarity is just a first step towards a more complete integration; the conclusion describes the next steps towards just such a research agenda.
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Commodity Chains and World Cities - World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: towards a world‐systems' integration
Global Networks, 2010Co-Authors: Ed Brown, Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Christof Parnreiter, Wim Pelupessy, Frank WitloxAbstract:There are two literatures that explicitly describe spaces of flows that constitute Contemporary Globalization: world city network analysis and global commodity chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other’s limitations. This is illustrated through world city process additions to understanding the coffee commodity chain and commodity chain additions to understanding Mexico City and Santiago’s positioning in the world city network. This complementarity is just a first step towards a more complete integration; the conclusion provides necessary next steps towards just such a research agenda.
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World city formation and long-distance communication under conditions of Contemporary Globalization : an empirical investigation of the relationship between air traffic and global service connectivity
2010Co-Authors: Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, Lomme Devriendt, Raf VerbruggenAbstract:This paper investigates the relationship between world city formation – as measured through global connectivities produced by advanced producer service firms – and global air transport flows. Firstly, we examine the obstacles related to the construction of careful measurements of (i) a city’s global airline connectivity, and (ii) its economic importance in the context of a globalized economy, and use this as a starting point to show how recent advances in conceptual and empirical research on global cities have been able to tackle some of these problems. This has allowed social scientists to construct extensive global measurements of the importance of cities in terms of air transport and corporate development. The second section of the paper compares these two sets of measurements through a simple statistical technique (standard least squares regression analysis). Through an examination of the regression residuals, this analysis allows the investigation of differences in importance between a city’s global air linkages and its corporate development. We interpret the results in terms of cities being under-developed and/or over-visited or being over-developed and/or under-visited. The end-result is a systematic analysis of the multifaceted relation between air travel and world city development under conditions of Contemporary Globalization.
Barney Warf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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EXCAVATING THE PREHISTORY OF TIME‐SPACE COMPRESSION
Geographical Review, 2011Co-Authors: Barney WarfAbstract:A significant topic in human geography is time-space compression, which winds through discussions of Globalization (Agnew 2001; Dicken 2007), telecommunications (Graham 1999; Licoppe 2004; Tsatsou 2009), and relational space (Kitsch 1995; Dodgshon 1999). Time-space compression reflects how various societies have reduced the friction of distance and facilitated interactions among places. In a famous representation often attributed to John McHale (1969), who in turn derived it from Eugene Staley (1939), which has now achieved "iconic status" in undergraduate texts (Knowles 2006,416), time-space compression reflects how new transportation technologies generated a "shrinking earth" (Figure 1), "Compression" is perhaps an inappropriate term, for every improvement in transportation or communication technologies has expanded, not compressed, intercourse over broader distances (Shields 1992). Under die massive social and technological changes unleashed by Contemporary Globalization, time-space compression has acquired renewed significance. Tele communications systems, long-distance jet airplanes, post-Panamax ships, and international financial markets reflect how postmodern capitalism is continually generating new spatialities in a never-ending process of creative destruction (Harvey 1990, 2006; Warf 2008k Only when we explicate how time and space are continually transformed can we avoid the simplistic arguments that lead lo erroneous conclusions of a "flat world" (Friedman 2005), the "end of geography" (O'Brien 1992), or the "death of distance" (Cairncross 1997). In this essay I question the popular view that the understanding of time-space compression originated during the 1960s and was then incorporated into successive social theoretic perspectives. I offer a summary of the early history of observations on time-space compression to reveal that the subject has a longer intellectual genealogy than is generally presupposed. THE CONVENTIONAL GEOHISTORY OF TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION The most common view of lime-space compression is that the concept arose among transportation geographers in the 1950s and 1960s. For example, several authors deployed maps of isochrones (lines of equal travel time) to understand space-adjusting technologies such as jet airplanes or declining railroad transport times (Kish 1958; Taaffe 1956,1959). Central to this undertaking was the work of Donald Janelle (1968,1969,1973,1975), who analyzed time-space convergence by pointing to how rising transportation velocities shrank relative distances even as the absolute distances between them remained constant. For example, stagecoaches, railroads, and automobiles successively reduced travel times between Lansing and Detroit, Michigan, by 1,220 minutes over 120 years, or 10 minutes per year (Figure 2). Analogously, travel times between Boston and New York declined by 27 minutes per year between i860 and 1965 (Janelle 1991). Janelle's work was influential in analyses of road networks (Marchand 1973), aviation (Ward 1989), and early theorizations of "plastic space" (borer 1978). Ronald Abler extended this line of thought by examining various space-adjusting technologies (1975), including telecommunications such as the telephone (Abler 1977; Abler and Thomas Falk (1981,1985), which essentially eliminated time-distances for flows of information. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Subsequent geographers studying time-space compression drew heavily on David Harvey's enormously influential spatialization of historical materialism (1982, 1985, 19S9). If positivists emphasized changes in transportation technology as its driving mechanism, Harvey repositioned it within the dynamics of capitalist production, notably capital's endless search for new markets as new technologies lowered the turnover time of capital, restructured landscapes and infrastructures, and steadily reduced the friction of distance. What Marx famously called the "annihilation of space by time" reflected capitalisms ability to reproduce itself at ever-expanded spatial scales. …
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Spatiality and Political Economy of the Global Fiber Optics Industry
Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business, 1Co-Authors: Barney WarfAbstract:Fiber optics forms the pivotal telecommunications technology of the Contemporary global economy, offering greater speed and security than other modes. This chapter reviews the historical development of this communications technique. It then views its rapid growth within the context of Contemporary Globalization. Fiber’s role in Contemporary urban restructuring is noted. The chapter then turns to the spatial distribution of the world’s fiber lines, noting major transatlantic and transpacific markets and newer systems. The enormous construction boom of the 1990s and early 2000s, however, led to severe overcapacity, with significant economic fallout.
Ben Derudder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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nylon s pre eminence the permeability of world regions in Contemporary Globalization
Geographical Review, 2021Co-Authors: Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Xingjian LiuAbstract:In this paper we provide a detailed geographical analysis of the role of the New York-London (NYLON) connection in the world city network. We find that its pre-eminence is much greater and much mor...
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World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2010Co-Authors: Céline Rozenblat, Ben Derudder, Frank WitloxAbstract:There are two literatures that explicitly describe the spaces of flows that constitute Contemporary Globalization – World City Network analysis and Global Commodity Chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other's limitations. This is illustrated through world city process additions to understanding the coffee commodity chain and commodity chain additions to understanding Mexico City and Santiago's positioning in the World City Network. This complementarity is just a first step towards a more complete integration; the conclusion describes the next steps towards just such a research agenda.
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Commodity Chains and World Cities - World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: towards a world‐systems' integration
Global Networks, 2010Co-Authors: Ed Brown, Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Christof Parnreiter, Wim Pelupessy, Frank WitloxAbstract:There are two literatures that explicitly describe spaces of flows that constitute Contemporary Globalization: world city network analysis and global commodity chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other’s limitations. This is illustrated through world city process additions to understanding the coffee commodity chain and commodity chain additions to understanding Mexico City and Santiago’s positioning in the world city network. This complementarity is just a first step towards a more complete integration; the conclusion provides necessary next steps towards just such a research agenda.
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World city formation and long-distance communication under conditions of Contemporary Globalization : an empirical investigation of the relationship between air traffic and global service connectivity
2010Co-Authors: Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, Lomme Devriendt, Raf VerbruggenAbstract:This paper investigates the relationship between world city formation – as measured through global connectivities produced by advanced producer service firms – and global air transport flows. Firstly, we examine the obstacles related to the construction of careful measurements of (i) a city’s global airline connectivity, and (ii) its economic importance in the context of a globalized economy, and use this as a starting point to show how recent advances in conceptual and empirical research on global cities have been able to tackle some of these problems. This has allowed social scientists to construct extensive global measurements of the importance of cities in terms of air transport and corporate development. The second section of the paper compares these two sets of measurements through a simple statistical technique (standard least squares regression analysis). Through an examination of the regression residuals, this analysis allows the investigation of differences in importance between a city’s global air linkages and its corporate development. We interpret the results in terms of cities being under-developed and/or over-visited or being over-developed and/or under-visited. The end-result is a systematic analysis of the multifaceted relation between air travel and world city development under conditions of Contemporary Globalization.
Ed Brown - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Commodity Chains and World Cities - World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: towards a world‐systems' integration
Global Networks, 2010Co-Authors: Ed Brown, Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder, Christof Parnreiter, Wim Pelupessy, Frank WitloxAbstract:There are two literatures that explicitly describe spaces of flows that constitute Contemporary Globalization: world city network analysis and global commodity chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other’s limitations. This is illustrated through world city process additions to understanding the coffee commodity chain and commodity chain additions to understanding Mexico City and Santiago’s positioning in the world city network. This complementarity is just a first step towards a more complete integration; the conclusion provides necessary next steps towards just such a research agenda.