World city network a global urban analysis
- Milton Park Routledge 2015
- xxi,217p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network.