ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the cities as strategic places in contemporary globalization using the methodology developed as world city network analysis. It explores different ways in which cities are being strategic, drawing on the literature dealing with selected individual cities. The chapter presents the basic model which specifies contemporary inter-city relations as an interlocking network. It outlines the connections between the location policies of internationalizing advanced producer service firms and the production of strategic city places. The chapter describes the data required to operationalize the model by creating a service values matrix showing how firms use cities, and initial forms of analyses from these data are described for both firms and cities. It also presents specific findings for 2016 data describing city-dyad contrasts and globalization strategies of firms. The chapter derives the strategic-ness of cities by relating strategic network positions to cities' encompassing global network positions.
