Cities as control and command centres: Analysis and interpretation

Peter Taylor; György Csomós

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2011.09.005

Cities as control and command centres: Analysis and interpretation

Peter Taylor, György Csomós

Geography and Environmental Sciences Department

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Abstract

Using the Forbes2000 list of largest corporations for 2010, revenues generated by companies are aggregated for the cities in which they are headquartered. From this data cities are ranked by sector and overall. The main finding is how overwhelmingly well Tokyo does in this empirical exercise. This is despite Japan’s ‘economic miracle’ stalling two decades ago. We use Jane Jacobs interpretation of the role of large corporations to explain this contradiction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	408-411
Journal	Cities
Volume	29
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2011.09.005
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

Keywords

city rankings
Jane Jacobs
large corporations
world cities

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