New urban spatial formats: Challenges for measurement

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New urban spatial formats Challenges for
measurement

• Major shifts in the scales, spaces and contents
  of economic activity are engendering novel
  spatial formats global cities and megaregions.
• These new spatial formats also call for new
  statistical and quantitative measurements for all
  the basic components of these new spatial formats

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Urban areas have always been difficult to measure

• But measuring the components of global cities and
  megaregions poses especially difficult issues
• Global cities Rapidly growing share of their
  economy and population are circulating in and
  out.
• A megaregion includes cities, suburbs,
  metropolitan areas, administrative regions.

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Measurement difficulties global cities

• Core components of the economy are part of larger
  transnational operations the global city under
  study is just one moment of a firms or a
  markets components
• Example global finance
• - operates largely in electronic space
• - before we can measure how it fits into a
  citys economy, we need to understand how a
  financial center (territorial) matters to global
  electronic finance .

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Measurement difficultiesMegaregions

• Emerging spaces thus identifying the boundary
  will require far more projection of future trends
  in all the key economic sectors of a region, than
  has been typical.
• Furthermore, it requires dealing with the
  potentially very diverse types of measurements
  that a given country has developed for different
  territorial units cities, suburbs, metropolitan
  areas, administrative regions.
• Megaregions cut across diverse administrative
  units but incorporate only part of each .

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Density- Mumbai
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Density- NYC
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Density- Shanghai
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Density - London
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Density- Mexico City
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Density- Johannesburg
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Density and Travel to Work
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Residential Density
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New York
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Shanghai
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London
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Mexico
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Johannesburg
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Berlin
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Travel to Work
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New York
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Shanghai
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London
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Mexico
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Johannesburg
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Berlin
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London (Population)
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London (Workplace)
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Greater London (Commuter Flows)
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Sao Paulo (Population)
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Sao Paulo (Workplace)
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Overall Ranking WCOC Index, Top 20
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Indicator 3 Ease of Doing Business

• Subindicators
• Starting a Business
• Employing Workers
• Getting Credit
• Closing a Business
• Conventions/Exhibitions/Meetings

• Conventions/Exhibitions/Meetings
• Banking Services
• Ease of Entry and Exit
• Investor Protection
• Corporate Tax Burden
• Contract Enforcement

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Ease of Doing Business Top 20
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Indicator 4 Financial Dimension

• Subindicators
• Financial Services Network
• Banking/Financial Services Companies
• Insurance Companies
• Investment/Securities Firms
• Total Value of Equities Trading
• Total Value of Bond Trading
• Total Number of Derivatives Contracts
• Total Number of Commodities Contracts

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Financial Dimension Top 20
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Indicator 5 Business Center Dimension

• Subindicators
• Traffic Through City Ports
• Air Passenger and Aircraft Traffic Through City
  Airports
• Air Cargo Traffic Through City Airports
• International Air Passenger Traffic Through City
  Airports
• Volume of Commercial Real Estate Development

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Business Center Dimension Top 20
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Knowledge Creation and Information Flows Top 20
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Overall Ranking WCOC Index