Through an analysis of the intra-company flows of 100 leading global service firms across 315 cities, Peter Taylor assesses cities in terms of their overall network connectivity, their connectivity by service sector, and their connectivity by world region.

Peter Taylor's book provides the first comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the world city network as the 'skeleton' upon which contemporary globalization has been built. The analyses challenge the traditional view of the world as a 'mosaic map' of political boundaries.

Prologue: The Second Nature Of Cities Part 1. Relations 1. Inter-City Relations 1.1 Cities As Process 1.2 National Urban Systems 1.3 World Cities 1.4 A New Spatial Logic 2. Back To Basics 2.1 The Evidential Crisis In World City Research 2.2 Dynamic Cities 2.3 A Pure Space Economy 2.4 A Political Economy World 2.5 World Cities As The New Dynamic Cities Part 2. Connections 3. Networks Of Cities 3.1 World City Network Formation 3.2 An Interlocking Network 3.3 Creating Data To Describe The World City Network 3.4 Global Network Connectivity 4. Geographies Of Connectivity 4.1 The Geography Of Global Network Connectivity 4.2 Global Services Across The Network 4.3 Power In The Network 4.4 Comparative Connectivities 5.
City Network Analyses 5.1 Egocentric Analyses: City Hinterworlds 5.2 City Cliques 5.3 World Cities: Terrain And Regional Analyses 5.4 Visualization Of The World City Network Part 3. Configurations 6. A Mapping Of Services In Globalization 6.1 Towards New Geographies Of Services 6.2 Defining Common Global Patterns Of Service Provision 6.3 Alternative Spatial-Strategic Emphases In Service Globalizations 6.4 Comparison
With The Configuration Of The Global Media Network 7. Mappings Of Cities In Globalization 7.1 Common Profiles Of City Services 7.2 Searching For Further Common City Profiles 7.3 A
Larger Mapping Using Fuzzy Set Analysis 7.4 Geographies Of A Nexus Part 4. Suppositions 8. From Past To Present: A Metageographical Argument 8.1 Metageography 8.2 Metageographies Of The Modern World-System 8.3 Embedded Statism: Living And Studying Through A Metageography 8.4 Globalization As A Metageographical Transition 9. From Present To Future: Reasserting Cities? 9.1 Two City-Centred Future Scenarios 9.2 Cities In Globalization: Some Basic Knowledge 9.3 The Dutch 'Golden
Age' As Economical Politics 9.4 Beyond Political Economy. Appendix A Global Service Firms (The "Gawc 100") Appendix B List Of Cities.