Assessing the functional polycentricity of the mega-city-region of central Belgium based on advanced producer service transaction links Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
This paper comments on three aspects of POLYNET's implementation of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) model to measure functional polycentricity at the local scale. These aspects are: (1) the use of advanced producer services (APS) office locations as a proxy for inter-city relations, (2) the problematic calculation of the functional polycentricity index, and (3) the narrow conceptualization of functional polycentricity. Alternative ...