Cities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate
headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They …

World cities are generally deemed to form an urban system or city network but these are never
explicitly specified in the literature. In this paper the world city network is identified as an …

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Our inability to measure and compare the flows of information between global command
centres is a major problem for research on the global urban hierarchy (Short and Kim 1999: 38). …

PbSeTe-based quantum dot superlattice structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy have
been investigated for applications in thermoelectrics. We demonstrate improved cooling …

A scale of solute hydrogen-bond basicity has been set up using log K values for the
complexation of a series of bases (i) against a number of reference acids in dilute solution in …

In learning their European history, generations of pupils have been taught that the three main
features to remember about the Holy Roman Empire were that it was never very holy, not …

Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no
agreed-upon roster covering world cities below the highest level. This paper reports the …

Commonly viewed as the acme of left-wing political achievement, the welfare state has been
so poorly defended that the very word welfare is now widely accepted as a derogatory term. …

The purpose of this paper is to describe the construction of a set of data that can be used to
measure intercity relations. Building on a specification of the world city network as an '…