Informational Quantity Versus Informational Quality: The Perils of Navigating the Space of Flows

REFERENCES

• Alonso , W. 1964 . Location and Land Use: Toward a General Theory of Land Rent , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Amin , A. and Thrift , N. 1995 . “ Globalisation, ‘institutional thickness’ and the local economy ” . In Managing Cities , Edited by: Healey , P. , Cameron , S. , Davoudi , S. , Graham , S. and Madanipour , A. 91 – 108 . Chichester : Wiley .
   Google Scholar
• Aujean , L. , Castiau , E. , Roelandts , M. and Vandermotten , C. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: Central Belgium , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Beaverstock , J. V. and Boardwell , J. 2000 . Negotiating globalisation, transnational corporations and global city financial centres in transient migration studies . Applied Geography , 20 : 277 – 304 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beaverstock , J. V. , Hoyler , M. , Pain , K. and Taylor , P. J. 2001 . Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban Change , London : Anglo-German Foundation .
   Google Scholar
• Cairncross , F. 1997 . The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives , London : Orion Business Books .
   Google Scholar
• Carlstein , T. , Parkes , D. and Thrift , N. 1978 . Human Activity and Time Geography, Vol. 2: Timing Space and Spacing Time , London : Edward Arnold .
   Google Scholar
• Castells , M. 1996 . The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1 The Rise of the Network Society , Oxford : Blackwell .
   Google Scholar
• Cheshire , P. C. and Hay , D. G. 1989 . Urban Problems in Western Europe: An Economic Analysis , London : Unwin Hyman .
   Google Scholar
• Cochrane , A. 1998 . Illusions of power: interviewing local elites . Environment and Planning A , 30 : 2121 – 2132 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crang , M. 2002 . Qualitative methods: the new orthodoxy? . Progress in Human Geography , 26 : 647 – 655 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crang , M. 2003 . Qualitative methods: touchy, feely, look-see? . Progress in Human Geography , 27 : 494 – 504 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davoudi , S. 2003 . Polycentricity in European spatial planning: from an analytical to a normative agenda . European Planning Studies , 11 : 979 – 999 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• England , K. 2001 . “ Interviewing elites: cautionary tales about researching women managers in Canada's banking industry ” . In Feminist Geography in Practice: Research and Methods , Edited by: Moss , P. 200 – 213 . Oxford : Blackwell .
   Google Scholar
• European Commission . 1999 . ESDP: European Spatial Development Perspective. Towards Balanced and Sustainable Development of the Territory of the European Union , Brussels : European Commission .
   Google Scholar
• European Commission . 2003 . Competitiveness, Sustainable Development and Cohesion in Europe – From Lisbon to Gothenburg , Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities .
   Google Scholar
• European Council . 2000 . Presidency Conclusions – Lisbon European Council, 23 and 24 March , (available at: http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/00100-r1.en0.htm) (accessed May 2006)
   Google Scholar
• Fischer , C. , Freytag , T. , Hoyler , M. and Mager , C. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: Rhine-Main , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Garreau , J. 1991 . Edge City: Life on the New Frontier , New York, NY : Doubleday .
   Google Scholar
• Garrison , W. 1959/60 . Spatial structure of the economy . Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 49 : 232 – 239 . 471–482; 50, 357–373
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glanzmann , L. , Grillon , N. , Kruse , C. and Thierstein , A. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: Northern Switzerland , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Goddard , J. B. 1973 . Office linkages and location . Progress in Planning , 1 : 109 – 232 .
   Google Scholar
• Gottmann , J. 1961 . Megalopolis: The Urbanized North Eastern Seaboard of the United States , New York, NY : Twentieth Century Fund .
   Google Scholar
• Graham , S. and Marvin , S. 1996 . Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Haig , R. M. 1926 . Toward an understanding of the metropolis . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 40 : 179 – 208 . 402–434
   Google Scholar
• Halbert , L. 2004 . Densité, deserrement, polycentrisme et transformation économique des aires métropolitaines , Paris : l'Université Paris—I . Doctoral thesis
   Google Scholar
• Halbert , L. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: Paris Region , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Halbert , L. , Convery , F. and Thierstein , A. 2006a . Reflections on the polycentric metropolis . Built Environment , 32 : 110 – 113 .
   Google Scholar
• Halbert , L. , Pain , K. and Thierstein , A. 2006b . European polycentricity and emerging Mega-City-Regions – ‘one size fits all’ policy? . Built Environment , 32 : 206 – 218 .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , P. 1966 . The World Cities , London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , P. 1995 . “ Towards a general urban theory ” . In Cities in Competition: Productive and Sustainable Cities for the 21st Century , Edited by: Brotchie , J. , Batty , M. , Blakely , E. , Hall , P. and Newton , P. 3 – 31 . Melbourne : Longman Australia .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , P. 1999 . “ Planning for the mega-city: a new eastern Asian urban form? ” . In East–West Perspectives on 21st Century Urban Development: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium , Edited by: Brotchie , J. , Newton , P. , Hall , P. and Dickey , J. 3 – 36 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , P. and Hay , D. 1980 . Growth Centres in the European Urban System , London : Heinemann .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , P. and Pain , K. 2006 . The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe , London : Earthscan .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , P. , Thomas , R. , Gracey , H. and Drewett , R. 1973 . The Containment of Urban England , Vol. 2 , London : George Allen & Unwin .
   Google Scholar
• Harris , C. D. and Ullman , E. L. 1945 . The nature of cities . Annals of the American Academy of Political and Economic Science , 242 : 7 – 17 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme de la Région Ile de France (IAURIF) . 1996 . North-West European Metropolitan Regions: Geographical Boundaries and Economic Structures , Paris : IAURIF .
   Google Scholar
• Ipenburg , D. and Lambregts , B. 2001 . Polynuclear Urban Regions in North West Europe: A Survey of Key Actor Views , Delft : DUP Science . EURBANET Report No. 1, Housing and Urban Policy Studies No. 18
   Google Scholar
• Kloosterman , R. C. and Musterd , S. 2001 . The polycentric urban region: towards a research agenda . Urban Studies , 38 : 623 – 633 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Knapp , W. , Scherhag , D. and Schmitt , P. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: RhineRuhr , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Lambregts , B. , Roling , R. , Van der Werff , M. , Kapoen , L. , Kloosterman , R. and Korteweg , A. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: The Randstad , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Llewelyn-Davies . 1996 . Four World Cities , London : Comedia .
   Google Scholar
• Marshall , A. 1890 . Principles of Economics , London : Macmillan .
   Google Scholar
• McDowell , L. 1998 . Elites in the city of London: some methodological considerations . Environment and Planning A , 30 : 2133 – 2146 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McGee , T. G. 1995 . “ Metrofitting the emerging mega-urban regions of ASEAN: an overview ” . In The Mega-Urban Regions of Southeast Asia , Edited by: McGee , T. G. and Robinson , I. 3 – 26 . Vancouver, BC : University of British Columbia Press .
   Google Scholar
• Mitchell , W. J. 1995 . City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Mitchell , W. J. 1999 . e-topia: ‘Urban Life, Jim – But Not As We Know It’ , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Mogridge , M. J. H. and Parr , J. B. 1997 . Metropolis or region: on the development and structure of London . Regional Studies , 31 : 97 – 115 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Muth , R. F. 1969 . Cities and Housing: The Spatial Pattern of Urban Residential Land Use , Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nadin , V. and Duhr , S. 2005 . Some help with Euro-planning jargon . Town and Country Planning , 74 : 82
   Google Scholar
• NWMA Spatial Vision Group . 2000 . Spatial Vision for the North Western Metropolitan Area (NWMA) , Bristol : University of the West of England .
   Google Scholar
• Pain , K. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: Summary Report , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Pain , K. 2006 . Policy challenges of functional polycentricity in a global Mega-City Region: South East England . Built Environment , 32 : 194 – 205 .
   Google Scholar
• Pain , K. 2008 . Examining ‘core–periphery’ relationships in a global city-region: the case of London and South East England . Regional Studies , 42 : 1161 – 1172 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Porter , M. E. 1998 . Clusters and the new economics of competition . Harvard Business Review , 76 : 77 – 90 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Potts , G. and Pain , K. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: South East England , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Scott , A. J. 2001 . Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy , Edited by: Scott , A. J. Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Sit , V. F. S. and Yang , C. 1997 . Foreign-investment-induced exo-urbanisation in the Pearl River Delta, China . Urban Studies , 34 : 647 – 677 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sokol , M. and Van Egeraat , C. 2005 . POLYNET Action 2.1: Qualitative Analysis of Service Business Connections: Greater Dublin , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Taylor , P. J. 2001 . Specification of the world city network . Geographical Analysis , 33 : 181 – 194 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Taylor , P. J. 2003 . “ European cities in the world network ” . In The European Metropolis 1920–2000 , Edited by: Van Dijk , H. Rotterdam : Erasmus Universiteit . (available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1765/1021) (accessed January 2006)
   Google Scholar
• Taylor , P. , Beaverstock , J. , Cook , G. , Pandit , N. , Pain , K. and Greenwood , H. 2003 . Financial Services Clustering and its Significance for London , London : Corporation of London .
   Google Scholar
• Taylor , P. J. , Evans , D. and Pain , K. 2006 . “ Organisation of the polycentric metropolis: corporate structures and networks ” . In The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe , Edited by: Hall , P. and Pain , K. 53 – 64 . London : Earthscan .
   Google Scholar
• Taylor , P. J. , Evans , D. and Pain , K. 2008 . Application of the inter-locking network model to mega-city regions: measuring polycentricity within and beyond city-regions . Regional Studies , 42 : 1079 – 1093 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thomas , R. 1969 . London's New Towns: A Study of Self-contained and Balanced Communities , London : PEP .
   Google Scholar
• Toffler , A. 1980 . The Third Wave , New York, NY : William Morrow .
   Google Scholar
• University of the West of England . 2005 . Spatial Vision Study 1: Polycentric Territorial Development (Including Urban–Rural Relationships) in NWE, Final Report , Bristol : University of the West of England . 30 June 2005
   Google Scholar
• Van der Werff , M. , Lambregts , B. , Kapoen , L. and Kloosterman , R. 2005 . POLYNET Action 1.1: Commuting and the Definition of Functional Urban Regions: The Randstad , London : Institute of Community Studies/The Young Foundation & Polynet Partners .
   Google Scholar
• Wood , P. 2002 . Consultancy and Innovation: The Business Service Revolution in Europe , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Xu , X.-Q. and Li , S.-M. 1990 . China open door policy and urbanization in the Pearl River Delta region . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 14 : 49 – 69 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yeh , A. G. O. 2001 . Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: competition or cooperation? . Built Environment , 27 : 129 – 145 .
   Google Scholar
• Yeung , Y. M. 1996 . An Asian perspective on the global city . International Social Science Journal , 147 : 25 – 31 .
   Google Scholar