ABSTRACT

In this paper we provide a detailed geographical analysis of the role of the New York-London (NYLON) connection in the world city network. We find that its pre-eminence is much greater and much more diverse than previously considered. Our analysis draws on a data collection of the worldwide office networks of producer services firms across cities in 2018, and applies a purposeful combination of principal components analysis and network analysis to identify the relative importance of city-dyads in different regional geographies of globalization. We review the role of NYLON in the the different city sub-nets thus identified, and provide a more focused discussion of NYLON’s role in the production of three of these. In a short conclusion, we consider the meaning of our results for the broader literature.

摘要

在本文中，我们提供了纽约-伦敦（NYLON）连接在世界城市网络中的作用的详细地理分析。我们发现，它的卓越性比以前考虑的要大得多，也更加多样化。我们的分析基于2018年各城市生产商服务公司的全球办公网络的数据收集，并有目的地结合了主成分分析和网络分析，以识别城市二元在全球化的不同区域内的相对重要性。我们回顾了NYLON在由此确定的不同城市子网中的作用，并就NYLON在这三个网络的生产中的作用进行了更集中的讨论。总之，我们认为结果对于更广泛的文献是有意义的。