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1、1111WorldCityNetwork101Contemporaryglobalizationdescribesasituationinwhichimportantsocialrelationsareincreasinglystretchingworldwide,transcendingnationalboundaries.Buthowarethesetransnationalflowsandconnectionsorganizedifnotthroughcountries?Themostcommona

2、nswertothisquestionisthatcitiesaretheorganizational‘hubs’ofglobalization.WorldCityNetworkinterpretscitiesasglobalservicecentres.Withtheadventofmultinationalcorporations,thetraditionalurbanservicefunctionhas‘goneglobal’.In0ordertoprovideservicestoglobaliz

3、ingcorporateclients,theofficesofmajorfinancialandbusinessservicefirmsacrosstheworldhavecreatedanewnetwork.Itisthemyriadofflowsbetweenofficetowersindifferentmetropolitancentresthatformtheworldcitynetwork.Throughananalysisofthelocationstrategiesof100leadingglob

4、alservice111firmsacross315cities,thisbookassessescitiesintermsoftheiroverallnetworkconnec-tivity,theirconnectivitybyservicesector,andtheirconnectivitybyworldregion.PeterTaylor’sbookprovidesafirstcomprehensive,systematicdescriptionandanalysisoftheworldcityn

5、etworkasthe‘skeleton’uponwhichcontemporaryglobal-izationhasbeenbuilt.Hisanalyseschallengethetraditionalviewoftheworldasa‘mosaicmap’ofpoliticalboundaries.0PeterJ.TaylorisProfessorofGeographyattheUniversityofLoughborough,UK,andResearchProfessorattheMetropo

6、litanInstitute,VirginiaTech,USA.HeisanAcademicianoftheAcademyoftheSocialSciences(UK)andtheAssociationofAmericanGeographers’distinguishedscholarfor2003.001111101WorldCityNetwork0AglobalurbananalysisPeterJ.Taylor01001111Firstpublishedin2004byRoutledge11New

7、FetterLane,LondonEC4P4EESimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRoutledge29West35thStreet,NewYork,NY10001RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroupThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2004.©2004PeterJ.TaylorAllrightsreserved.Nopartofthisb

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