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Questioning the Theoretical Basis of Current Global‐City Research: Structures, Networks and Actor‐Networks

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  • Richard G. Smith & Marcus A. Doel, 2011. "Questioning the Theoretical Basis of Current Global‐City Research: Structures, Networks and Actor‐Networks," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 24-39, January.
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    1. Marcus Doel & Phil Hubbard, 2002. "Taking world cities literally: Marketing the city in a global space of flows," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(3), pages 351-368, November.
    2. John Friedmann, 1986. "The World City Hypothesis," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 17(1), pages 69-83, January.
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    2. Richard G. Smith, 2014. "Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(1), pages 98-115, January.
    3. Vladimír Pažitka & Dariusz Wójcik, 2021. "The network boundary specification problem in the global and world city research: investigation of the reliability of empirical results from sampled networks," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 97-114, January.
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    5. Andrew Boulton & Stanley D. Brunn & Lomme Devriendt, 2011. "Cyberinfrastructures and ‘Smart’ World Cities: Physical, Human and Soft Infrastructures," Chapters, in: Ben Derudder & Michael Hoyler & Peter J. Taylor & Frank Witlox (ed.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, chapter 18, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    6. Allan Watson & Jonathan V. Beaverstock, 2014. "World City Network Research at a Theoretical Impasse: On the Need to Re-Establish Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Agency in World City Networks," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 105(4), pages 412-426, September.
    7. Richard G Smith, 2013. "The Ordinary City Trap," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(10), pages 2290-2304, October.

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