<nettime> Update of the Globalization and World Cities Network

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: "David Walker" <D.R.F.Walker@lboro.ac.uk>

GaWC INTELLIGENCE Number 10
Update of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Network

GaWC is expanding. It is developing a second base in the Metropolitan
Institute at Virginia Tech. The new Institute, an initiative by the College
of Architecture and Urban Studies, is based in Alexandria, VA, which is in
the Washington city region. Within the overall suite of the Institute¹s
research initiatives, GaWC work will focus upon relations between
urbanization and globalization, covering issues such as inter-city
relations, high-tech industries, and sustainability. Rob Lang (rlang@vt.ed)
is the Director of the Institute and will collaborate with Peter Taylor
(Associate Director and Visiting Research Professor) and Paul Knox (Dean of
the College of Architecture and Urban Studies) in building a GaWC research
programme at Alexandria. They will be assisted initially by Troy Gravitt who
holds an internship at the Institute.

There have been four new projects launched since the last GaWC-I

Project 22
Moscow as a world city: globalization and urban restructuring
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec22.html
Researcher: Olga Gritsai (AME, University of Amsterdam)

Project 23
The use of fuzzy classification techniques for world city network analysis
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec23.html
Researchers: Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox (University of Ghent) and Peter
Taylor

Project 24
Global Governance from Below: NGOs in World Cities
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec24.html
Researchers: Peter Taylor and Troy Gravitt (Virginia Tech)
Funded by The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech

Project 25
Advertising as a "Leading Industry" in Contemporary Globalization
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec25.html
Researchers: Peter Taylor and Jon Beaverstock assisted by Troy Gravitt
(Virginia Tech)
Funded by The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in associated with the
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and its research initiative
supported by UNESCO²s MOST programme

There have been six new Research Bulletins since the last GaWC-i

RB 79
US science and the fear of a backlash
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb79.html
By Sami Mahroum

RB 80
Global media cities in a worldwide urban network
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb80.html
By Stefan Krätke

RB 81
Taking world cities literally: urban competition and the spatialities of a
global space of flows
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb81.html
By Marcus Doel and Phil Hubbard

RB 82
Economic globalization and IT talent flows: the Taipei/ Shanghai/ Silicon
Valley triangle
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb82.html
By Tse-Kang Leng

RB 83
Dutch hegemony and contemporary globalization
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb83.html
By Peter Taylor

RB 84
Spaces of practice in the geography of contemporary producer service
business
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb84.html
By Kathryn Pain


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