This empirical paper maps changes in the global geography of advanced producer service provision across major cities in the 2000--2008 period. The analyses are based on a systematic assessment of geographical shifts in the office networks of leading firms in finance, management consultancy,...

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. -- By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the ‘stretching’ of urban functions beyond specific place...

Sassen's identification of global cities as “strategic places” is explored through world city network analysis. This involves searching out advanced producer service (APS) firms that constitute “strategic networks,” from whose activities strategic places can be defined. Twenty-five out...

In Chapter 6 advanced producer services featured crucially in the exposition of the interlocking network model. Drawing on Sassen’s (1991) identification of this work as integral to global city formation, the office networks of advanced producer service firms were modelled to generate a world...

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.