ABSTRACT
The final section has been designed to showcase city connectivities at the state level, again based on the analysis of the 525 cities × 175 firms service matrix with its 91,875 pieces of information. Although this book is a ‘global urban analysis’, this does not mean that we should neglect nation-states and their influence on intercity relations. Globalization does not mean the end of the state; rather it entails a spatial restructuring of economic activities in which the state continues to be implicated. Thus the question is how do states relate to the cities located in their territories, given the immense growth in global spaces of flows?
