Derudder / Witlox Commodity Chains and World Cities

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5196-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which tostudy the geographies of contemporary globalization. This bookassesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the mostnotable analytical frameworks - the world city network frameworkand the global commodity chain framework.
* Transnational spatial relations have become a key analyticallens through which to study the geographies of contemporaryglobalization
* Brings together contributions of key researchers from differentbackgrounds and different parts of the world
* Offers a set of original approaches to the study of thenetworked geography of globalization

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derudder, Ben

Witlox, Frank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. World Cities and Global Commodity Chains: An introduction (BenDerudder and Frank Witlox).
2. World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: Towards aWorld-Systems' Integration (Ed Brown, Ben Derudder, ChristofParnreiter, Wim Pelupessy, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox).
3. Global cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Roleof Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance(Christof Parnreiter).
4. City Networks and Commodity Chains: Identifying Global Flowsand Local Connections in Ho Chi Minh City (Ingeborg Vind and NielsFold).
5. Cities, Material Flows and the Geography of SpatialInteraction: Urban Places in the System of Chains (MarkusHesse).
6. Integrating World Cities into Production Networks: The Caseof Port Cities (Wouter Jacobs, Cesar Ducruet and Peter DeLangen).
7. Intra-firm and Extra-firm Linkages in the Knowledge Economy:The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich (StefanLüthi, Alain Thierstein and Viktor Goebel).
8. Making Connections: Global Production Networks and World CityNetworks (Neil M. Coe, Peter Dicken, Martin Hess and HenryWai-Cheung Yeung).
9. Global Inter-city Networks and Commodity Chains: AnyIntersections? (Saskia Sassen).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Derudder is Professor of Human Geography at GhentUniversity. He is also Associate Director of the Globalization andWorld Cities research group and network (GaWC). His researchfocuses on the conceptualization and empirical analysis oftransnational urban networks, the importance of business travel inthe space economy, and the impact of the globalization of transportand production on urban development.
Frank Witlox is Professor of Economic Geography at GhentUniversity. He is also Associate Director of the Globalization andWorld Cities group and network (GaWC), and a visiting professor atthe Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA).His research focuses on transport economics and geography, citylogistics, world cities and globalization, and urban planning.