The idea of the "global city," which focuses on globalisation's impact on the social, financial, and political reality of cities in advanced economies, has become widely influential in the decades since its introduction-and yet the major issues in the "global city debate" remain unresolved. This book provides a systematic overview of the debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as an argument for the need to test the framework's empirical validity before the unresolved questions can be fruitfully addressed. By testing data from the Netherlands in the 1990s and 2000s, the author demonstrates the value of rigorous empirical scrutiny while offering fresh insights for the global city debate as a whole.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Reconsidering the global city debate
- 1.2 Scrutinizing the global city debate: major issues
- 1.2.1 The changing economic base of cities
- 1.2.2 Advanced producer services and labour demand
- 1.2.3 The new international division of labour and immigration
- 1.3 Scrutinizing the global city debate: blind spot
- 1.4 Research questions
- 1.5 Research framework
- 2. The changing economic base of cities
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Three scenarios on employment growth in the advanced producer services
- 2.2.1 The two clustering arguments in the global city theoretical framework
- 2.2.2 The clustering argument in the global city debate
- 2.3 Assessing employment growth in the advanced producer services
- 2.4 What drives deindustrialization and growth in services?
- 2.5 Conclusions
- 3. Advanced producer services and labour demand
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Polarization, professionalization and mismatch
- 3.2.1 The polarization thesis
- 3.2.2 The professionalization thesis
- 3.2.3 Polarization and professionalization in Dutch cities
- 3.3 Assessing the impact of advanced producer services on labour demand
- 3.4 A consumerist alternative: cultural amenities and the demand for low-skilled labour
- 3.5 Disentangling a productivist and consumerist explanation for unemployment among less-educated urbanites
- 3.6 Conclusions
- 4. Foreign direct investment and immigration
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Immigration in the global city: theoretical framework
- 4.3 Assessing the push and pull factors of the new immigration
- 4.3.1 Assessing Dutch FDI as a push factor for immigration
- 4.3.2 Assessing growth in the advanced producer services as a pull factor for immigration
- 4.4 Conclusions
- 5. Immigration and unemployment
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The substitution thesis
- 5.2.1 The substitution thesis: theory and evidence
- 5.2.2 The substitution thesis and the urban economy
- 5.3 Assessing the substitution thesis on unemployment
- 5.4 Conclusions
- 6. Conclusions and discussion
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 After the unravelling: theoretical and empirical implications
- 6.2.1 The changing economic base of cities
- 6.2.2 Advanced producer services and labour demand
- 6.2.3 The new international division of labour and immigration
- 6.2.4 The impact of immigration on urban labour markets
- 6.3 The new conceptual architecture reconsidered
- 6.4 Globalization or neo-liberalization? On science versus politics
- Epilogue: The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath
- Appendix A. Polarization and professionalization studies
- Appendix B. Data & operationalization
- Appendix C. Employment shares in manufacturing for each metropolitan area 1995-2007
- Appendix D. Robustness checks
- Literature
- Index
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