Not Chicago: voids in world city network formation

Derudder, Ben; Taylor, Peter J.

doi:10.1080/02723638.2020.1810490

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“…However, two cities illustrate alternatives to the ‘pathway city’ portrayal. The first is Chicago, which was found to be the second most referenced city (ID = 16), despite the fact it is sometimes said to suffer from a ‘network void’ and found to be ‘off the map’ of some important world city networks (Derudder and Taylor, 2021). In this sample of public-art policy documents, Chicago is mentioned by most of the referencing cities, in some cases with a direct reference to the ‘Bean’.…”

Section: The Public Art Referencing Network: Resultsmentioning

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Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art policies

Keidar,

Silver

2023

Urban Studies

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This article examines the dynamics of inter-referencing between cities and develops the concept of the ‘Urban Referencing Network’ as a representation of the references made by cities to one another in policy documents. The study employs public art policies, specifically the Percent for Art policy, to investigate the structure of inter-referencing within the urban referencing network. Using a corpus of policy documents from 26 Anglophone cities with over one million residents, we analyse 150 documents containing 2178 inter-references. Combining network measurements and regressions, we explore the emergence of central nodes and the mechanisms influencing their formation. The broader field of arts and cultural policies, with its extensive inter-urban connections and professional networks, provides fertile ground for studying urban referencing networks. By integrating literature on policy mobility and urban networks, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the circulation of urban ideas and the interplay between cities in policy-making processes. The results demonstrate that only a few cities, including New York, Chicago, London, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Montreal, emerge as central nodes, attracting the other cities’ attention. Attributes of the referenced cities, like economic importance, iconicity and early adoption, determine to a great extent who are the most central nodes.

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Section: The Public Art Referencing Network: Resultsmentioning

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Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art policies

Keidar,

Silver

2023

Urban Studies

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“…This exposes some level of nuance that transcends city size, as some cities dominate in domestic economic networks while others are important at the regional or global scale. Sigler, Neal, et al (2021) and Derudder and Taylor (2020) demonstrate that cities such as Chicago and Dallas play a far more important role in domestic networks, despite being classified as bona fide global cities. On the other hand, the role of Brussels might be more determined by its position in the wider European Union rather than Belgium per se, as might Strasbourg and Geneva, being highly internationalized cities (Hesse & Mei‐Ling, 2020).…”

Section: The Global Scale: From Core World Regions To World City Networkmentioning

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“…Thus peripheralization assumes new meaning in terms of how we place cities within a framework of uneven development, given the large number of cities lacking deep global connectivities. In looking across the entire urban systems, however, a key question is how cities are simultaneously framed as core and peripheral at different scales, meaning that cities can be central to national economic networks yet peripheral to the global economy, or vice versa (Derudder & Taylor, 2020). A country may have a well‐developed urban system with several well‐connected global cities, or a poorly developed national urban system with just a single globally connected primate city.…”

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The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks

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This paper demonstrates how the national urban hierarchies can be understood through the lens of connectivity within globally scaled economic networks. We first examine the global city network structure using a k‐core decomposition method. Values of k‐coreness are then used to understand the distribution of global connectivity within national urban systems. This is observed through a measure of statistical dispersion applied to a novel global dataset of 68,602 weighted headquarter‐subsidiary relations of 31,371 firms linking 4181 cities collected in 2019. Our results confirm the existence of a hierarchical core–periphery structure at a global scale, yet reveal varying degrees of hierarchy at a national scale. At a national scale, single‐core, double‐core or multi‐core network structures characterize the way in which national and global city networks intersect, indicating that there is a distinction between global cities as the core and urban‐systems‐as‐networks that connect nations to the global economy.

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