With globalization, cities need to be taken more seriously. The research project ‘World City Network Formation in a Space of Flows’ by Professor Peter Taylor was funded by the Economic and ...

City Classification for 2020", a research report released by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) on Aug. 21. The research assesses cities in terms of their advanced producer ...

The academic thinktank, Globalization and World Cities Research Network, or GaWC, has released its latest report classifying world cities in 2018. Based on the office networks of 175 advanced ...

In the original research on world city formation 122 cities were scored between 1 and 12 in terms of their ‘world city-ness’ (Beaverstock et al. 1999). From these scores, totals of world city ...

The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) released its latest world cities rankings on August 21, with six Chinese cities ranked in Alpha level, or first-tier city level.

anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 12, 2025 Shenzhen, now ranked an Alpha city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, is one of the world’s largest economies by GDP.

Ranked as an Alpha city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, the metropolis located in Guangdong province of China, is known as one of the largest economies in the world.