Globalization and world cities: some measurement methodologies

ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures

“…We reiterate the importance of up-to-date information, and particularly the focus on "information" in its own right-in the case of Beaverstock et al (2000), the newspaper. Popular publications undoubtedly function as a barometer of issues' salience-at least insofar as their editors have access to sufficient information, and we trust their abilities to judge "salience".…”

“…Partially addressing this "absence" are studies that use content analysis to examine news sources (e.g., Pred, 1980;Beaverstock et al, 2000) or analyses of conference proceedings in respect of the changing salience of specific topics through time. Beaverstock (2000) argues that "by recording place mentions in a sample of business news stories one can derive a surrogate measure of a city's external relations."…”

“…Partially addressing this "absence" are studies that use content analysis to examine news sources (e.g., Pred, 1980;Beaverstock et al, 2000) or analyses of conference proceedings in respect of the changing salience of specific topics through time. Beaverstock (2000) argues that "by recording place mentions in a sample of business news stories one can derive a surrogate measure of a city's external relations." Earlier studies based on hyperlinks between cities-operationalized as the number of web pages jointly referencing city pairs-conceptualized city relationships in similar ways, while pointing towards the potential of additional search engine data for world city research (Brunn & Williams, 2003;Brunn, 2004).…”

Assessing the Driving Forces Influencing World City Formation in Shanghai Based upon PLS-SEM Approach

“…In addition, Social and cultural factor is another indispensable mechanism to underpin the status of world city. International and domestic migration is major driving forces that extremely expect to enhance insights of world city formation in the face of transnational socio-cultural linkage, especially relating to skilled elite inter-urban migrations (J. V. Beaverstock, Smith, Taylor, Walker, & Lorimer, 2000). Apart from the first item of social and cultural factor construct, the study of proliferation of education and international student admission are also occupying another relative important position in this construct (Douglass, 2000).…”

Beyond transitions: Understanding urban change in post-socialist cities

“…Free of ideological bias these studies recognize new sources of difference in highly urbanized societies and use a country's urban system as the analytical construct through which to measure and interpret such trends. It is argued that the urban system serves as the primary channel linking the national economy to the system of global cities (Beaverstock et al 2000;Yates and Cheng 2002), embodying all the forces at work: economic, social, and political (Bourne and Simmons 2003;Greyer 2002). Cities are a component of the large urban system linking local realities to national and indeed global trends and processes of change.…”