Michiel van Meeteren

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-study of the scientific literature in urban studies traces the conceptual stretching of polycentricity using scientometric methods and content analysis, and proposes a re-conceptualisation of poly-centricity based on explicitly acknowledging the variable spatial impact of these different kinds of agglomeration economies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the world city archipelago remains an obligatory passage point for the relatively assured realization of capital and that the advanced producer services complex appropriates superprofits as producers of co-constitutive knowledge on operational and financial firm restructuring.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a combinatorial typology of agglomeration and network externalities and illustrate the typology by applying a bipartite network projection detailing the presence of globalized producer services firms in cities in 2012.

TL;DR: The authors argue that postcolonial critiques of global cities research tend to be polemical rather than engaging, as evidence for the polemics' tendency to be irrelevant rather than informative, and they argue that such criticisms tend to focus on the negative aspects of GCR.

TL;DR: The rise of Fintech challenges established financial centres and incumbent financial institutions to rethink their strategies to remain obligatory passage points in the age of digitizing finance as mentioned in this paper, which is the case in many countries.