This article presents an analysis of the determinants of connectivity change in the world city network (WCN). Drawing on the theoretical research of Saskia Sassen and the subsequent empirical research of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) group, connectivity in the WCN is measured through...

In the last few years, it has become commonplace to assert that important cities owe a large part of their functional importance to their position in multifarious global networks. However, because of the structural lack of adequate data, it is very difficult to provide empirical evidence for the...

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