A roster of world cities

Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no agreed-upon roster covering world cities below the highest level. This paper reports the construction of an inventory of world cities based upon their level of advanced producer services. Global service centres...

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Published in:	Cities 1999-12, Vol.16 (6), p.445-458
Main Authors:	Beaverstock, J.V, Smith, R.G, Taylor, P.J
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Accounting Advanced producer services Advertising Banking Business Cities Cities and towns Enterprises Globalization Law Legal profession Service industries Supply and demand World cities
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Summary:	Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no agreed-upon roster covering world cities below the highest level. This paper reports the construction of an inventory of world cities based upon their level of advanced producer services. Global service centres are identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law. Aggregating these results produces a roster of 55 world cities at three levels: 10 Alpha world cities, 10 Beta world cities and 35 Gamma world cities. These are found to be largely geographically concentrated in three “globalization arenas”, northern America, western Europe and Pacific Asia.
ISSN:	0264-2751 1873-6084