The Global City Debate Reconsidered

Economic Globalization in Contemporary Dutch Cities

Jeroen Waal, Jeroen van der Waal

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040788943
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Economics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The changing economic base of cities
• 3 Advanced producer services and labour demand
• 4 Foreign direct investment and immigration
• 5 Immigration and unemployment
• 6 Conclusions and discussion
• 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