The global capacity of Belgium’s major cities: Antwerp and Brussels compared

The paper has two purposes: (i) to outline a methodology for systematically measuring economic relations between the world’s major cities and (ii) to provide a general assessment of the position of Belgium’s major cities in this global urban network. In the first section, we stress that research on Brussels and Antwerp under conditions of contemporary globalization lacks a systematic account of their global relational patterns, a knowledge lacuna that can at least partly be traced back to the dearth of suitable data. In a second section, we outline the methodology for measuring the networked c... Mehr ...