The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which 'gateway cities', serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) and Singapore, which are vital nodes for the oil and gas industry. In addition to showing how diverse brokerage by cities is, the article calls for qualitative research to complement the insights on city networks generated by quantitative assessments
Introduction This chapter departs from the observation that global city research has, 20 years after...
In a dynamic global economy, emergent configurations of capitalist production produce novel spatial ...
Background paper for the study on Cape Town's future competitiveness and the global knowledge econom...
Gateway cities connect vast hinterlands to the outside world, being vital for our highly globalised ...
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contribu...
Multinational enterprises can play an important role in increasing the global competitiveness of cit...
The role of cities in the global economy has been studied extensively for the specific case of advan...
The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of gateway cities as it applies under conditions...
Serving as “gateways”, some world cities tie their wider hinterlands to global networks. The article...
To date empirical research on World Cities has primarily focused on relations among World Cities. We...
This article presents three arguments for a new research perspective on global city networks analysi...
This article broadens the discussion of cities as strategic sites in which global activities are org...
Port cities are a particular type of territory and are often long-standing examples of resilience, b...
This article introduces a new perspective on city connectivity in order to analyze non-hub cities an...
Cities and transport networks have been intertwined through history and are still related despite th...
Introduction This chapter departs from the observation that global city research has, 20 years after...
In a dynamic global economy, emergent configurations of capitalist production produce novel spatial ...
Background paper for the study on Cape Town's future competitiveness and the global knowledge econom...
Gateway cities connect vast hinterlands to the outside world, being vital for our highly globalised ...
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contribu...
Multinational enterprises can play an important role in increasing the global competitiveness of cit...
The role of cities in the global economy has been studied extensively for the specific case of advan...
The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of gateway cities as it applies under conditions...
Serving as “gateways”, some world cities tie their wider hinterlands to global networks. The article...
To date empirical research on World Cities has primarily focused on relations among World Cities. We...
This article presents three arguments for a new research perspective on global city networks analysi...
This article broadens the discussion of cities as strategic sites in which global activities are org...
Port cities are a particular type of territory and are often long-standing examples of resilience, b...
This article introduces a new perspective on city connectivity in order to analyze non-hub cities an...
Cities and transport networks have been intertwined through history and are still related despite th...
Introduction This chapter departs from the observation that global city research has, 20 years after...
In a dynamic global economy, emergent configurations of capitalist production produce novel spatial ...
Background paper for the study on Cape Town's future competitiveness and the global knowledge econom...