Cities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs has been a feature of the shift from an international [...]

Which are the world’s most connected cities in terms of financial and business services – accountancy, advertising, banking and finance, insurance, law and management consultancy? New ESRC-funded research by Professor Peter Taylor of Loughborough University puts London and New York well ahead of the pack. While this is no great surprise – though it has [...]

Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany is sponsoring this interesting research on Energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres.
A prominent example for global changes that no longer affect individual countries or regions alone but affect the whole of humanity is the trend towards urbanisation and the spread of “megacities”, especially in developing and newly [...]