The Dirty Little Secret of World Cities Research: Data Problems in Comparative Analysis

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Análise Urbana Global: Aplicação De Agrupamentos Fuzzy Para as Principais Cidades Do Mundo - Leading World Cities

“…Este descompasso entre a sofisticação conceitual e o fraco suporte empírico se deve, em grande medida, à falta de bases de dados relevantes com informações que descrevem o relacionamento entre as principais cidades do mundo (SHORT et al, 1996;DERUDDER;TAYLOR, 2005).…”

La ville européenne à l'ère de la globalisation

“…The high requirement for data leads to a gap between the intensive theoretical debates and the empirical findings. This gap has been characterised as the "dirty little secret of global city research" (Short et al, 1996). To overcome this shortcoming, Peter Taylor and the "GaWC Group" (Globalization and World Cities Research Network) developed a relational database, consisting of a network of service firms surveyed in the years 2000 and 2008, of 100 (and later 175) firms located in 315 (and later 525) cities (Derudder et al, 2010).…”

Globalization and the City: Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present

“…the number of headquarters or passenger numbers on international business flights -were used to indicate the global relevance of cities in question. 21 20 Short et al (1996). 21 See Keeling (1995) for flight statistics; Meyer (1986) and Goudfrey/Zhou (1999) for the number of headquarters.…”