![]() ![]() ![]() Just as world/global cities research as a whole never intended to provide a comprehensive account of globalized urbanization (Parnreiter 2014 van Meeteren et al. GaWC’s core business has been to more narrowly focus on one conspicuous topic in research on globalized urbanization: the external connections of world cities. These changes were so dynamic, so unusual and so worldwide that they were beyond the comprehension of any one group of researchers in one place to even begin to adequately research this then-emerging field of study. The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network was founded at Loughborough University in 1998 by Peter Taylor and Jon Beaverstock as an invitation to urban scholars across the world to help understand the changing worlds of cities under conditions of contemporary globalization. ![]()
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