CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ix List of Contributors xvii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xxii Preface xxv 1Introduction: The GUCP/GaWC Project 1 Peter J. Taylor, Pengfei Ni and Ben Derudder PART A - GLOBAL-SCALE ANALYSES 2 Command and Control Centres in the World Economy 17 Peter J. Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Fin Huang, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox, Xiaolan Yang, David Bassens and Wet Shen 3 Advanced Producer Service Centres in the World Economy 22 Peter J. Taylor 4 Media Centres in the World Economy 40 Allan Watson and Michael Hoyler 5 The Global City Process Score 48 Pengfei Ni, Peter J. Taylor and Ben Derudder PART B - WORLD-REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSES Introduction 59 Peter J. Taylor 6 Australasian Cities in Globalization 63 OH Mould 7 Pacific Asian Cities in Globalization 71 Pengfei Ni and Xiaolan Yang 8 Eurasian Cities in Globalization 85 Pengfei Ni, Guangquan Li, Kai Liu and Jin Huang 9 South Asian Cities in Globalization 93 Rolee Aranya, Pengfei Ni, Zixu Cheng and Jin Huang 10 Middle Easr/North African Cities in Globalization 102 David Bassens, Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox 11 European Cities in Globalization 114 Peter J. Taylor, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain and Frank Witlox 12 Sub-Saharan Cities in Globalization 137 Ronald S. Wall 13 Northern American Cities in Globalization 148 Asli Ceylan Oner 14 Latin American Cities in Globalization 170 Francisco Castaneda, Jon Cloke and Ed Brown Global Synthesis: Regional Geography of Global Servicing 187 Peter J. Taylor PART C - KEY COUNTRY AND SUB-REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY PROFILES Introduction 197 PeterJ. Taylor 15 Australian Cities 201 Oli Mould 16 Chinese Cities 205 Pengfei Ni, Xiaoyan Yue and J in Huang 17 Japanese Cities 212 Pengfei Ni, Qingbin Li and J in Huang 18 Indian Cities 218 Rolee Aranya, Pengfei Ni, Yu Zhang and J in Huang 19 German Cities 224 Michael Hoyler 20 French Cities 231 Kathy Pain and Gtiles Ardinat 21 Swiss Cities 236 Alain Thierstein and Stefan Liithi 22 Italian Cities 241 Gilda Catalano 23 UK Cities 245 PeterJ. Taylor 24 Canadian Cities 251 Kathy Pain and Barry E. Prentice 25 US Cities 256 Asli Ceylan Oner 26 Mexican Cities 267 Margarita Perez Negrete 27 Brazilian Cities 272 Eliana C, Rossi 28 South East Asian Cities 278 Pengfei Ni, Guangyao Xu and ]in Huang 29 Arabian Gulf Cities 284 David Bassens, Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox 30 European Post-Soviet Cities 288 Olga Gritsai, Pengfei Ni, Herman van der Wusten, Kai Liu, Guangquan Li and ]in Huang 31 Kastern European Cities 293 Marek Banczyk 32 Nordic Cities 300 Brita Hermelin 33 enelux Cities 306 David Bassens, Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox 34 Iberian Cities 312 Simon Sdnchez Moral 35 Southern African Cities 318 RonaldS. Wall 36 Central American Cities 324 Ed Brown, Francisco Castaneda, Jon Cloke and Jose Luis Rocha Gomez Global Synthesis: National and Sub-Regional Contrasts 331 Peter J, Taylor Postscript: Trends and Change 337 Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox Appendix A: Lists of Firms and Cities Firms listed in the Forbes Global 2000 (2006) 351 All 200 firms in the network analyses 396 All 525 cities in the network analyses 400 Appendix B: Technical Appendix Data collection: manual for data collectors 412 Data transformation: network connectivity and hinterworld calculation424 Index 427