Measuring Advanced Producer Services in a Global CBD: Sydney 2001-2011

dc.contributor.authorHu, Richard
dc.contributor.authorFreestone, Robert
dc.contributor.authorDavison, Gethin
dc.contributor.authorTuli, Sajeda
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-04T09:32:42Z
dc.date.available2024-09-04T09:32:42Z
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.descriptionProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southen
dc.description.abstractThe rise of advanced producer services as a driver of urban economies is inextricably linked to globalization (Taylor, 2011). In this study, we report on the concentration of advanced producer services in the CBD of Sydney, Australia’s leading global city. This study is underpinned by the global city thesis that a global city’s status is determined by its capacity to provide advanced producer services, and that the activities of these services tend to be concentrated in central business districts (CBD) (Sassen, 2001). This global city thesis, together with the information technology facilitated “space of flows” (Castells, 2000), has informed what might be called an “exogenous” approach that focuses on inter-city connectivity through globalised economic activities (Taylor, 2004). This exogenous approach has dominated the global city literature that maps out a global city network within which individual cities are interlinked, including Sydney (Taylor, 2004; Taylor et al., 2011; Taylor, et al., 2014;). Such studies have revealed Sydney’s increasingly established position in the global city network, and its growing role as the gateway city of Australia’s economy and an important urban node of the integrated global economy. In this study, we take a different approach by employing an “endogenous” approach that focuses on the concentration of advanced producer services inside Sydney to offer a more localised and nuanced understanding of the city’s global capacity. The findings inform an appreciation of the city’s response to global economic forces and in particular an appreciation of how the planning system steers development forces into a mediation of private and public interest.
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dc.identifier.isbn978-85-7785-551-1en
dc.identifier.pageNumber1492-1495
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1935
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherAESOPen
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dc.sourceProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southen
dc.titleMeasuring Advanced Producer Services in a Global CBD: Sydney 2001-2011
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