The analysis and visualization of weighted networks pose many challenges, which have led
to the development of techniques for extracting the network's backbone, a subgraph …

Multinational enterprise (MNE) location decisions are central to international business (IB)
scholarship and research shows that global cities are key MNE investment locations …

The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date
treatment of regional economics. This fully revised edition includes key theoretical …

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has' gone
global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major …

The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to
tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual …

Welcome to the fifth edition of Tourism: A Modern Synthesis, which has been revised to meet
the needs of the reader after extensive feedback from readers, adopters, students and …

Central place hierarchies have been the traditional basis for understanding external urban
relations. However, in contemporary studies of these relations, a new emphasis on urban …

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 …

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern
cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can …

A shift from monocentric cities to increasingly polycentric urban regions has been widely
recognised in recent research literature. Although polycentricity in general refers to the …